Good News Baptist Church
Good News Baptist Church is a church at 501 Wadsworth Street in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg.
501 Wadsworth Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Phone: (434) 845-0540
Good News 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 Good News 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 2,100 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: 46.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (13.5–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
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 Good News Baptist Church
- God's Agape Love Ministries International — 0.1 mi away
- Back to Eden 7th Day Commandment Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lynchburg Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Tree of Life Midtown — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Power Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Parkview United Methodist Church Lynchburg — 0.3 mi away
- Hill City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Higher Heights Cathedral of Deliverance — 0.3 mi away
- Peaceful Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Promise Land Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Peaceful Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Cross Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Lynchburg Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Leawood Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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