New Prospect Baptist Church
New Prospect Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 509 Prospect Road in Hurt, VA 24563. It is one of 22 churches in Hurt, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our Mission is to connect people with Jesus Christ, to encourage and equip them to share His love with the world.
Formed in 1849, the church was first called the Baptist Church of Christ at Mt. Pleasant.
509 Prospect Road, Hurt, VA, 24563Service times
- Wednesday, Thursday 9am
- Wednesday, Thursday 6:30pm
Phone: (434) 324-8201 · Website: https://mynpbc.com
New Prospect 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 — 71,418 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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Latest from New Prospect Baptist Church of Hurt, VA's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship Service - Sept 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around New Prospect Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Child Poverty: 31.4% (16.2–46.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (4.1–15.0%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (11.5–26.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Hurt town is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,410 residents.
Churches near New Prospect Baptist Church
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hurt United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Lighthouse Community Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Victoria Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Altavista Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away in Altavista, VA
- Central Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Altavista, VA
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Altavista, VA
- First Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.6 mi away in Altavista, VA
- Monte Vista Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Hurt Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Altavista, VA
- First Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Altavista, VA
- Monte Vista Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 1.6 mi away in Altavista, VA