First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg
First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg is a Baptist church at 2500 Tazewell Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
2500 Tazewell Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24501First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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 First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 29.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.2% (14.5–38.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.7–17.9%)
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 First Baptist Church of South Lynchburg
- Christian Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Life Ministries Lynchburg Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- Fairview Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Temple of Love — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ's Community Fellowship United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Truth Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Cross Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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