Central Freewill Baptist Church
Central Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Norton, VA 24273. It is one of 25 churches in Norton, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Norton, VA, 24273Central Freewill Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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 Central Freewill Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 41.0%
- Child Poverty: 37.3% (20.0–54.5%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (16.9–33.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norton city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 407 residents.
Churches near Central Freewill Baptist Church
- Norton United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Freedom of Worship — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Anthony Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- City Center Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Norton Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Norton Evangelical Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Norton Church - EPC — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wise Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Wise, VA
- Wise Baptist Association — 4.4 mi away in Wise, VA
- Glamorgan Chapel — 4.5 mi away in Wise, VA
- Mount Olive Church — 4.8 mi away in Wise, VA