Main Street Baptist Church
Main Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Emporia, VA 23847. It is one of 71 churches in Emporia, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Emporia, VA, 23847Shares a ministry location with Resurrection.
Main Street 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 Main Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Emporia city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 227 residents.
Churches near Main Street Baptist Church
- Resurrection — 0 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Berean Light Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Glorious Church of God in Christ Apostolic — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Richards Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Independent Missionary Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Baltimore Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away