Temple Baptist Church

Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1322 George Washington Highway North in Chesapeake, VA 23323. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.

Our mission at Temple Baptist Church is to fulfill the great commission. We seek to develop passionate disciples of Jesus Christ who desire to know God and make Him known.

As a caring community of authentic believers, our vision is to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to disciple believers.

1322 George Washington Highway North, Chesapeake, VA, 23323

Phone: (757) 485-5828 · Website: http://templeva.org/

Temple 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 Temple Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.4%
  • Obesity: 44.4%
  • Social Isolation: 38.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
  • Diabetes: 15.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
  • Unemployment: 9.1% (2.0–16.2%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
  • Depression: 23.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.9% (9.6–26.3%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.8–21.2%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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

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