Washington Street Baptist Church
Washington Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 218 East Washington Street in Bedford, VA 24523. It is one of 70 churches in Bedford, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
218 East Washington Street, Bedford, VA, 24523Washington Street 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 — 71,419 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 Washington Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (10.5–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bedford town is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 486 residents.
Churches near Washington Street Baptist Church
- Main Street Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bedford Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bedrock Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Fellowship Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Philips Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Haven of Rest United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Loves People Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bedford Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Truth Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Longwood Avenue Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Bedford Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Lovely Zion Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away