Lovely Zion Baptist Church
Lovely Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1741 Longwood Avenue in Bedford, VA 24523. It is one of 70 churches in Bedford, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
1741 Longwood Avenue, Bedford, VA, 24523Lovely Zion 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 Lovely Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bedford town is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 486 residents.
Churches near Lovely Zion Baptist Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Longwood Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bedford Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Bedford — 1.4 mi away
- Liberty Cowboy Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bible Truth Tabernacle — 1.5 mi away
- Safe Harbor Community Church — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Longwood Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bedford Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Washington Street Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away