East Ocean View Baptist Church
East Ocean View Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9609 9th Bay Street in Norfolk, VA 23518. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
9609 9th Bay Street, Norfolk, VA, 23518Shares a ministry location with Lighthouse Community Church.
East Ocean View 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 — 71,419 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 East Ocean View 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. More than a third 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: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (8.9–29.7%)
- Depression: 24.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (6.8–26.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near East Ocean View Baptist Church
- Lighthouse Community Church — 0 mi away
- Shiloh Outreach Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Pentecost USA Inc. - Norfolk Assembly — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
- Azalea Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- The Chosen Ministry — 1 mi away
- Calvin Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Coastal Church Norfolk — 1.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.2 mi away
- The Garden United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Azalea Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church and Bible Book Store — 2 mi away
- Bayview Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Bank Street Memorial Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Endtime United Church of Jesus — 2.5 mi away