Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is a church at 800 Augusta Avenue in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg.
800 Augusta Avenue, Petersburg, VA, 23803Website: http://mtolivet.net/
Mount Olivet 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 Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (20.1–41.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (5.4–27.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (4.5–18.1%)
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 Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- Shining Light Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Faith AME Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Warriors of Yahweh, An Assembly of Yahweh — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Church International — 0.5 mi away
- Harvest International Full Gospel Baptist Center — 0.6 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Harvest International Full Gospel Baptist Center — 0.6 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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