Lakemont Baptist Church
Lakemont Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1510 Prince George Avenue in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
1510 Prince George Avenue, Petersburg, VA, 23803Website: http://www.petersburgbaptist.org/
Lakemont 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 Lakemont Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 61.7% (45.9–78.7%)
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Food Insecurity: 45.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (25.5–54.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 18.6% (8.7–28.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near Lakemont Baptist Church
- Emmanuel Apostolic Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Faith and Hope Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Korean Mission Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Blandford United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Covenant Christian Fellowship — 1 mi away in Colonial Heights, VA
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Jesus Way Fellowship Center — 1.2 mi away
- Crater View Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Day Christian Church — 1.2 mi away in Colonial Heights, VA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Crater View Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Day Christian Church — 1.2 mi away in Colonial Heights, VA
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Colonial Heights, VA
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