Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene
Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene is a church at 1747 Wards Ferry Road in Lynchburg, VA 24502. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg.
1747 Wards Ferry Road, Lynchburg, VA, 24502Phone: (434) 239-4943 · Website: https://www.lynchburgnaz.com/
Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 114 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Virginia — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene
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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (11.6–30.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (0.0–15.1%)
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 Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene
- Restoration Hill — 0.6 mi away
- Lynchburg Church of the Brethren — 0.8 mi away
- Beulah Church — 0.8 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Victory Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- South River Friends Meetinghouse — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fort Avenue Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Crosspoint Church — 1.6 mi away
- Forest Family Fellowship — 1.9 mi away
- Timberlake Church — 3.8 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 3.8 mi away
- Crosspoint Church — 5.9 mi away
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