Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Good Shepherd Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2223 S. Crater Road in Petersburg, VA 23805. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1930 · Part of Baptist General Convention
2223 S. Crater Road, Petersburg, VA, 23805Phone: (804) 863-2665 · Website: http://www.goodshepherdbaptist.org/
Good Shepherd 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 — 71,418 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 Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.0–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Baptist Church
- Zion City Of Refuge Ministries Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- H2O Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Walnut Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away in Hopewell, VA
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- In His Presence Apostolic Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary II Outreach Revival Center — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Petersburg Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Walnut Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Monumental Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Crater View Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Second Chance — 1.7 mi away
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