New Grafton Baptist Church
New Grafton Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4401 Chestnut Avenue in Newport News, VA 23607. It is one of 181 churches in Newport News, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
4401 Chestnut Avenue, Newport News, VA, 23607Website: http://www.newgraftonbaptist.org/
New Grafton Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,726 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,350 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 New Grafton 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 50.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (3.9–21.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.8–33.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newport News city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 2,230 residents.
Churches near New Grafton Baptist Church
- Full Gospel Deliverance Church — 0.1 mi away
- Walters Temple AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pray First Mission Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Alpha and Omega Christian Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Triumph Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Revelation Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Gray's Temple Holy Church of Deliverance — 0.5 mi away in Hampton, VA
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church of East End — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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