Peaceful Baptist Church
Peaceful Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2009 Park Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
2009 Park Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Website: https://www.peacefulbaptist.org
Peaceful Baptist Church 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 Peaceful 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 2,200 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: 47.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.2% (15.4–37.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
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 Peaceful Baptist Church
- Tree of Life Midtown — 0.2 mi away
- Bountiful Blessings — 0.2 mi away
- Brentwood Church — 0.2 mi away
- My Church Lynchburg — 0.3 mi away
- Empowerment Temple #2 — 0.3 mi away
- Euclid Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Ramp Church International — 0.3 mi away
- Breakthrough Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lynchburg Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Leawood Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Dearington Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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