Abyssinia Baptist Church
Abyssinia Baptist Church is a church at 3001 Wickham Ave in Newport News, VA 23607-3503. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News.
3001 Wickham Ave, Newport News, VA, 23607-3503Phone: +17572440607 · Website: https://abyssiniabaptistchurch.org/home.aspx
Abyssinia 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 Abyssinia Baptist Church
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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 59.9% (42.2–77.6%)
- Obesity: 54.0%
- Food Insecurity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.4% (21.5–47.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 16.3% (8.1–24.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (4.2–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Abyssinia Baptist Church
- Temple of Peace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Light United Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Glorious Church of the Lord Jesus — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Newport News Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Temple of Peace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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