Calvary Cross Baptist Church
Calvary Cross Baptist Church is a Independent Baptist church at 1700 James Street in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg.
1700 James Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Calvary Cross 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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The community around Calvary Cross Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.0–33.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Calvary Cross Baptist Church
- Promise Land Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Southview United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ's Community Fellowship United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Power Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- All Nations Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gather Lynchburg — 0.4 mi away
- New Wine Church — 0.4 mi away
- Love & Truth Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- God's Agape Love Ministries International — 0.5 mi away
- Back to Eden 7th Day Commandment Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- West Lynchburg Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg — 0.7 mi away
- Peaceful Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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