Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Mount Carmel Baptist Church is a church at 179 Ben Lawson Dr in Pennington Gap, VA 24277-7617. It is one of 21 churches in Pennington Gap.
179 Ben Lawson Dr, Pennington Gap, VA, 24277-7617Phone: +12765465559 · Website: http://mcbcva.com
Mount Carmel 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 Mount Carmel Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 46.2%
- Child Poverty: 42.1% (29.6–55.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (16.7–42.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.5–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Carmel Baptist Church
- Woodway Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Gilbert Memorial Church — 1.2 mi away
- Willis Chapel — 1.3 mi away
- Smith Chapel — 1.6 mi away
- Station Creek Church — 1.9 mi away
- Union Church — 2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Ely Memorial Church — 2.5 mi away in Dryden, VA
- Beech Hill Church — 2.6 mi away
- Wells Chapel Church — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Pennington Gap — 2.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Admant Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6 mi away
- Darbyville Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away
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