Elba Missionary Baptist Church
Elba Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 133 Northside Drive in Gretna, VA 24557-5057. It is one of 38 churches in Gretna, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
133 Northside Drive, Gretna, VA, 24557-5057Elba Missionary 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 — 71,420 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 Elba Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 3.7 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 a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (9.5–38.3%)
- Depression: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (13.2–27.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elba Missionary Baptist Church
- Trinity Episcopal — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Land Church Family Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Gretna Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Canaan Land Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Outreach Center — 0.4 mi away
- Anderson Memorial Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Springfield Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Harvest Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Springfield Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Midway Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away