Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church
Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1520 Fillmore Street in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 244 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
1520 Fillmore Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (18.1–43.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.8–22.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
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 Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church
- Christ Temple Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel of the Good Shepherd — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wayside Christian Transformation Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- One Worship Revival — 0.3 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Diamond Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Worship Center — 0.4 mi away