Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1415 Florida Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
1415 Florida Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Central 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 Central 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (16.4–38.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg — 0.5 mi away
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Temple of Love — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Fairview Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Brookville Church — 0.6 mi away
- Truth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Life Ministries Lynchburg Church of God of Prophecy — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg — 0.5 mi away
- Truth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Amazing Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Campbell Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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