Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel
Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel is a Baptist church at 606 5th Street in Lynchburg, VA 24504. It is one of 244 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
606 5th Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24504Phone: +1 434-941-3902
Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel
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 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: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (18.3–42.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
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 Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel
- Freedom Fire Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hill City Reformed Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Court Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Downtown Presbyterian — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Jesus Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away