First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 502 South Main Street in Gretna, VA 24557-4172. It is one of 23 churches in Gretna, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
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502 South Main Street, Gretna, VA, 24557-4172Phone: +1 434-656-2600 · Website: https://www.fbcgretna.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.6 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: 20.1%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.1%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (9.5–38.3%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.6% (13.3–27.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Springfield Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anderson Memorial Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Outreach Center — 0.4 mi away
- Harvest Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Canaan Land Church — 0.4 mi away
- Canaan Land Church Family Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Elba Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gretna Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- West End Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away