African Baptist Church
African Baptist Church is a church at 4224 Sunnyside Rd in Cheriton, VA 23310-3705. It is one of 3 churches in Cheriton.
4224 Sunnyside Rd, Cheriton, VA, 23310-3705Phone: +17573311837 · Website: https://esvmba.org/churches/african
African 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 African Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 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: 39.8%
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Food Insecurity: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near African Baptist Church
- Cheriton United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cheriton Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holmes Church — 0.6 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Mt Sinai Gospel Tabernacle — 1.5 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Faith Church — 1.5 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Travis Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Lower Northampton Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Saint Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cheriton Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lower Northampton Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Cape Charles Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- First Baptist Church - Capeville — 3.8 mi away in Cape Charles, VA
- Eastville Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Cape Charles, VA