Shockoe Baptist Church
Shockoe Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chatham, VA 24531. It is one of 50 churches in Chatham, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chatham, VA, 24531Shockoe 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 Shockoe Baptist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 18.8%
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 19.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shockoe Baptist Church
- Shockoe Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Java, VA
- New Mine Creek Church — 4.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Old Mine Creek Church — 4.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 4.8 mi away
- Providence Church — 4.9 mi away
- Smithfield Church — 5 mi away
- Zion Chapel — 5.1 mi away
- Mount Tabor Church — 5.2 mi away
- Sheva Church of Christ — 5.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Mount Tabor Church — 5.2 mi away
- Chestnut Level Church — 5.5 mi away in Blairs, VA
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Keeling, VA
- Fairview Church — 6.4 mi away in Gretna, VA