St Mark Baptist Church
St Mark Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1092 St Mark Church Rd in Alton, VA 24520. It is one of 18 churches in Alton, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a church that honors our history while stepping into a deeper relationship with God through the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are a family of faith who are "Christ-Centered, Spirit-Led and Bible Driven for the Glory of God."
1092 St Mark Church Rd, Alton, VA, 24520Phone: +14347532403 · Website: https://www.stmarkbaptist.me/our-history.html
Shares a ministry location with Lawsons Chapel.
St Mark Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around St Mark Baptist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (8.6–24.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Mark Baptist Church
- Lawsons Chapel — 0 mi away
- Alton Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Olive Branch Church — 2.1 mi away
- Traynham Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Bethel Church — 2.8 mi away
- Cedar Grove United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Mount Carmer Church — 3 mi away
- Cross Road Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in South Boston, VA
- Ephesus Church — 3.2 mi away
- New Ephesus Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Alton Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Cross Road Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in South Boston, VA
- First Crossroads Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in South Boston, VA
- Denniston Grove Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Chestnut Grove Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away