Messiah Baptist Church
Messiah Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1152 24th St in Newport News, VA 23607-4731. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
1152 24th St, Newport News, VA, 23607-4731Service times
- Sunday 9:30am–10:30am · morning
Phone: +17572442687 · Website: https://mymessiahbaptist.com/messiah-baptist-church-history/
Messiah 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 Messiah Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 2,100 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: 52.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (19.1–41.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 13.6% (6.7–20.6%)
- Child Poverty: 32.4% (14.0–50.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Messiah Baptist Church
- Shalom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wesley Grove United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- New Vision Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rising Star Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shalom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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