Owen R. Cheatham Chapel
Owen R. Cheatham Chapel is a Baptist church in Chatham, VA 24531. It is one of 50 churches in Chatham, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chatham, VA, 24531Owen R. Cheatham Chapel is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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 Owen R. Cheatham Chapel
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 18.3%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (6.3–40.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (13.7–28.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Chatham town is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 605 residents.
Churches near Owen R. Cheatham Chapel
- Watson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chatham Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chatham Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rehobeth Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Lukes Church — 0.5 mi away
- City of Hope Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Chatham Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Harvest Faith Ministries — 0.7 mi away in Blairs, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Chatham Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Triumph Church — 2.8 mi away
- Samuel Harris Memorial Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Open Bible Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Marion Church — 3.8 mi away