Mount Hermon Baptist Church
Mount Hermon Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Lens Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23509. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lens Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23509Mount Hermon 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 Mount Hermon 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 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: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (5.4–17.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (9.9–25.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.2–21.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Mount Hermon Baptist Church
- Freedom Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Fairmont Park United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Apostolic Church Glorious Vision — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Pentecostal Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Abundant Life Apostolic Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Pentecost USA — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel Holy Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Herman Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Way of the Cross Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New St Mark's Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away