Irondale primitive baptist church

Irondale primitive baptist church is a Baptist church in Big Stone Gap, VA 24219. It is one of 29 churches in Big Stone Gap, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.

Big Stone Gap, VA, 24219

Irondale primitive 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 Irondale primitive baptist church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

  • Obesity: 43.9%
  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Child Poverty: 31.7% (16.5–46.9%)
  • Depression: 25.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.9% (8.4–27.3%)
  • Diabetes: 14.3%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (1.2–13.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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