Higher Learning Ministries
Higher Learning Ministries is a Pentecostal church at 1209 Upper Appomattox St in Petersburg, VA 23803-2903. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg, and one of 2 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
Higher learning ministries meets people where they are and has the mission to educate and equip people for empowerment.
The vision of Higher Learning Ministries began January 1, 2000 while Dr. Samuel Wright, Jr. was in prayer during watch night service when God called him to Pastor.
Serving since 2000
1209 Upper Appomattox St, Petersburg, VA, 23803-2903Phone: (804) 518-5692 · Website: https://www.higherlearningministries.com/
Shares a ministry location with Morning Star Baptist Church.
Higher Learning Ministries is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 460 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Virginia — 16,683 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around Higher Learning Ministries
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third 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: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.1%
- Unemployment: 17.6% (6.8–28.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (11.8–31.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Higher Learning Ministries
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Fountain-Deliverance Outreach — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Church International — 0.2 mi away
- Glory Of God Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest International Full Gospel Baptist Center — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
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- Chester Enon Church of God — 8.2 mi away in Chester, VA
- Hopewell Pentecostal Holiness Church — 8.7 mi away in Hopewell, VA
- Faith Tabernacle Assembly of God Church — 8.7 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
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