Melville Avenue Baptist Church
Melville Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 745 Melville Avenue in Danville, VA 24540. It is one of 203 churches in Danville, and one of 48 Baptist congregations in the city.
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745 Melville Avenue, Danville, VA, 24540Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8:30am · through
Phone: (434) 793-7346 · Website: https://www.bgav.org/church-directory/melville-avenue-baptist-church
Melville Avenue 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.
Find Melville Avenue Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Melville Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.6% (14.5–30.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (6.2–39.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Danville city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 412 residents.
Churches near Melville Avenue Baptist Church
- St John One Accord — 0.4 mi away
- Timberlake Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nor-Dan Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shelia Isom Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- White Rock Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lighthouse Worship and Family Center — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Third Avenue Congregational Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Compassion Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Timberlake Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Woodberry Hills Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- North Main Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away