Garretts Community Baptist Church
Garretts Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2843 Victoria Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
2843 Victoria Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504Garretts Community 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 — 71,417 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 Garretts Community Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Social Isolation: 43.7%
- Food Insecurity: 38.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (10.4–34.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (5.2–17.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
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 Garretts Community Baptist Church
- Westminster Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Love Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Woodland Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Solid Rock Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Morning Star United Holy Church — 0.8 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Campostella Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Unity Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westminster Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Love Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Woodland Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1 mi away