Gethsemane Baptist Church
Gethsemane Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3509 Chestnut Ave in Newport News, VA 23607-3201. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
3509 Chestnut Ave, Newport News, VA, 23607-3201Service times
- Sunday 8am
- Sunday 10:15am
Phone: +17572448833 · Website: https://gethsemanebaptist.org/
Gethsemane 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 Gethsemane 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 54.1%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (18.8–46.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 19.2% (8.5–29.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0% (12.0–20.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (4.6–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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