Midway Baptist Church

Midway Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4695 Lexington Turnpike in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.

4695 Lexington Turnpike, Amherst, VA, 24521

Midway 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.

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The community around Midway Baptist Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Diabetes: 15.6%
  • Obesity: 38.6%
  • Social Isolation: 31.8%
  • Depression: 23.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (2.6–11.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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