First Baptist Church of Gilmerton
First Baptist Church of Gilmerton is a Baptist church at 1617 Shell Road in Chesapeake, VA 23323. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
1617 Shell Road, Chesapeake, VA, 23323First Baptist Church of Gilmerton 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 First Baptist Church of Gilmerton
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (1.9–16.4%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 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 of Gilmerton
- Church of God In Christ First Jur Va — 0.4 mi away
- New Fellowship Deliverance Church — 0.6 mi away
- Joyous House Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redemption Church — 0.8 mi away
- Wayside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fullness Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Alive Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Philadelphia Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- NewGWC — 0.9 mi away
- The Called Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wayside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Crestwood First Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Geneva Park Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Alpha & Omega Baptist Fellowship — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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