First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 439 Freeman Avenue in Chesapeake, VA 23324. It is one of 348 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1944
439 Freeman Avenue, Chesapeake, VA, 23324First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.2–23.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chesapeake city is served by 180 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Deliverance Tabernacle Church — 0.5 mi away
- Raleigh Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church at Hampton Roads — 0.5 mi away
- Narroway Pentecostal Community Outreach Center — 0.6 mi away
- MCGI Virginia — 0.6 mi away
- Agape Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rosemont Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Blessed Hope Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church of Tidewater — 0.8 mi away