Purdy Baptist Church
Purdy Baptist Church is a church at 186 Smokey Ordinary Rd in Emporia, VA 23847-7600. It is one of 71 churches in Emporia.
186 Smokey Ordinary Rd, Emporia, VA, 23847-7600Website: https://petersburgbaptist.org/churches/purdy-baptist-church/
Purdy 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 Purdy Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Child Poverty: 24.0% (7.0–40.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Purdy Baptist Church
- Mount Pleasant Church — 0.7 mi away
- Purdy Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Church — 1.9 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Emmanuel Church — 3.6 mi away in Freeman, VA
- Aberdour Presbyterian Church — 4.4 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Saint Johns Church — 4.5 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Freeman, VA
- Mount Calvary Church — 5 mi away in Freeman, VA
- Pleasant Grove Church — 5.5 mi away in Freeman, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Purdy Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Freeman, VA
- First Baptist Church Freeman — 6.8 mi away in Freeman, VA
- First Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Jarratt, VA
- Morningstar Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Jarratt, VA