Anchor Baptist Church
Anchor Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 608 West Mary Street in Bristol, VA 24201. It is one of 117 churches in Bristol, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 2019
608 West Mary Street, Bristol, VA, 24201Shares a ministry location with Central Baptist Church.
Anchor 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 Anchor Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 46.2%
- Poverty Rate: 41.0% (28.9–53.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (11.9–28.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (2.7–15.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bristol city is served by 42 churches — about one congregation for every 405 residents.
Churches near Anchor Baptist Church
- Central Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Reynolds Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hunt Memorial Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Euclid Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Euclid Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away