Gethsemane United Presbyterian Church
Gethsemane United Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at 185 Gethsemane Church Avenue in Drakes Branch, VA 23937. It is one of 13 churches in Drakes Branch, and one of 2 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
185 Gethsemane Church Avenue, Drakes Branch, VA, 23937Gethsemane United Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 523 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Virginia — 11,639 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around Gethsemane United Presbyterian Church
It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Child Poverty: 37.3% (21.9–52.7%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (18.4–33.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gethsemane United Presbyterian Church
- Saint Michaels Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Drakes Branch Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Organ Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Drakes Branch Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Organ Hill Church — 1.7 mi away
- Village Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away in Charlotte Court House, VA
- Charlotte Court House United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Charlotte Court House, VA
- Mount Tirzah Church — 4.1 mi away in Charlotte Court House, VA
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Drakes Branch Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Village Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away in Charlotte Court House, VA
- Wylliesburg Presbyterian Church — 10.4 mi away
- Old Providence Presbyterian Church — 12.7 mi away in Nathalie, VA
- Madisonville Presbyternian Church — 13.8 mi away in Pamplin, VA
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