True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8139 Huell Matthews Hwy in Alton, VA 24520-3101. It is one of 18 churches in Alton, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
True Light Baptist Church is a fundamental, independent, and self-governing church. We are Baptist in doctrine and policy. It is our privilege to serve the surrounding communities, and it is our desire to minister to people through meeting their needs in any way possible.
8139 Huell Matthews Hwy, Alton, VA, 24520-3101Service times
- Sunday 11am · services are streamed
Phone: (434) 572-9777 · Website: https://tlbcalton.com/
True Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,417 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.
Ministries at True Light Baptist Church
- Kids for Christ
- Kids4Truth
- LIGHTNING Youth
- Light for Living Radio Ministry
- Prayer Wheel
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Latest from True Light Baptist Church Alton, Virginia's YouTube channel: The Drought No One Seems To Be Talking About (Psalm 63:1,2) (all videos).
The community around True Light 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: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (9.1–25.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Orange Grove Church — 0.7 mi away
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- Spring Hill Church — 1.9 mi away in South Boston, VA
- The Worship Center — 2.1 mi away in South Boston, VA
- Cherry Hill Church — 2.5 mi away in South Boston, VA
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Virgilina, VA
- Mayo Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
- Denniston Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Shady Grove United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Virgilina, VA
- Pleasant Grove Church — 3.4 mi away in South Boston, VA
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