First Emmanuel Baptist Church

First Emmanuel Baptist Church is a church at 1108 Kempsville Road in Chesapeake, VA 23320. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake.

1108 Kempsville Road, Chesapeake, VA, 23320

Shares a ministry location with Jesus Is Lord Church-Virginia Beach and LifePoint Christian Fellowship and St. Alban's Anglican Church.

First Emmanuel Baptist Church 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 First Emmanuel Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 37.7%
  • Social Isolation: 31.9%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Chesapeake city is served by 180 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.

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