Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 26463 Metompkin Road in Parksley, VA 23421. It is one of 10 churches in Parksley.
26463 Metompkin Road, Parksley, VA, 23421Phone: (757) 787-4095
Zion 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 Zion Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Food Insecurity: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (8.4–23.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Child Poverty: 28.1% (12.5–44.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (9.4–28.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Metompkin Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Christian Church — 1.5 mi away
- Iglesia El Candelero De Oro - VA — 1.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.8 mi away
- Living Word Church of Deliverance — 2.1 mi away in Bloxom, VA
- Woodbury Church — 2.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Baptist Bible Church — 2.7 mi away in Accomac, VA
- Eastern Shore District Office of the United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Adams United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Metompkin Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Bible Church — 2.7 mi away in Accomac, VA
- Drummondtown Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Accomac, VA
- Modest Town Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Bloxom, VA
- First Church — 6.5 mi away in Bloxom, VA