West Lynchburg Baptist Church
West Lynchburg Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 3031 Memorial Avenue in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg.
3031 Memorial Avenue, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Phone: +1 434-845-4600 · Website: https://wlbc.life/
West Lynchburg 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 West Lynchburg Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (8.8–27.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 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 West Lynchburg Baptist Church
- All Christ Nation — 0.1 mi away
- Higher Heights Cathedral of Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Life Deliverance Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- All Nations Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shepherd's House Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Love & Truth Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Wine Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gather Lynchburg — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Transformation Church International — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Cross Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Peaceful Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Thomas Road Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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