St Mark Baptist Church
St Mark Baptist Church is a church at 28523 Railroad Ave in Melfa, VA 23410. It is one of 6 churches in Melfa.
28523 Railroad Ave, Melfa, VA, 23410Phone: (757) 787-1125 · Website: https://esvmba.org/churches/saint-mark
St Mark Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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.
Find St Mark Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around St Mark Baptist Church
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Food Insecurity: 17.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Mark Baptist Church
- Gospel Temple Church — 1.3 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 1.5 mi away
- Hollies Church — 1.8 mi away
- Rock Church of the Eastern Shore — 1.9 mi away in Onley, VA
- Keller Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away in Keller, VA
- Gaskin Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Onancock, VA
- Gaskins Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away in Onancock, VA
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.8 mi away in Onley, VA
- Anointed Word of Deliverance Church of God in Christ — 3.1 mi away
- Onley United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Onley, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hollies Church — 1.8 mi away
- Onley Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Onley, VA
- Shiloh Baptist Church - Boston, Va — 4 mi away in Pungoteague, VA
- Onancock Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Onancock, VA
- Broadway Church — 5.4 mi away in Onancock, VA