Gospel Light Baptist Church
Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Independent Baptist church at 302 S Craig Ave in Covington, VA 24426-1704. It is one of 62 churches in Covington.
Gospel Light Baptist Church is an old-fashioned Independent Baptist Church with Bible preaching and teaching that is sound, relevant, and practical.
Services in Spanish
302 S Craig Ave, Covington, VA, 24426-1704Service times
- Sunday 11am · Morning
Phone: (540) 962-3488 · Website: https://glbcs.org/about/
Gospel Light 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 — 71,417 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.
Ministries at Gospel Light Baptist Church
- Nursery
- Primaries
- Juniors
- Junior church
- Bus Ministry
- Iglesia Bautista Luz del Evangelio
- Master Clubs
- Ladies Fellowship
- Gospel Light Christian School
- Gospel Light Christian Camp
- REFORMERS UNANIMOUS
- Preacher's Retreat
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The community around Gospel Light 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 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: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Child Poverty: 35.2% (18.3–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (15.7–32.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gospel Light Baptist Church
- Good News Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covington Wesleyan Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Epworth Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Granbery Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fincastle Baptist Church Highlands Campus — 0.4 mi away
- Pine Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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