Saint Mark United Church of Christ
Saint Mark United Church of Christ is a church at 521 Obendorfer Road in Norfolk, VA 23523. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk.
521 Obendorfer Road, Norfolk, VA, 23523Saint Mark United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Virginia — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Saint Mark United Church of Christ
Within about a mile of this church, 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 52.7%
- Child Poverty: 44.7% (29.1–60.3%)
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (23.4–43.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.2–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Saint Mark United Church of Christ
- First Baptist Church, Berkeley — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint Mark Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Center of Love Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hood Chapel African Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Csccministries — 0.3 mi away
- Chesapeake Christian Center — 0.3 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Smyrna Community Church — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- South Norfolk Congregational Christian Church — 0.7 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
- Providence United Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
- Union United Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- First Congregational Church — 2.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA