Fifth Street Baptist Church
Fifth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1007 5th Street in Lynchburg, VA 24504. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
1007 5th Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24504Phone: (434) 846-1900 · Website: https://5sbcmlk.org
Fifth Street 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 — 71,419 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 Fifth Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 two thousand 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: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (19.9–44.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Fifth Street Baptist Church
- First Church of Jesus Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem United Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Word Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Holiness Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Smyrna Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Fire Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hill City Reformed Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Court Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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