New First Baptist Church
New First Baptist Church is a church at 1348 Grant Avenue in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg.
1348 Grant Avenue, Petersburg, VA, 23803New First 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 — 71,420 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 New First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 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.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 33.4% (22.6–44.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (4.6–27.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.9–20.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near New First Baptist Church
- Zion Apostolic Christian Memorial Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Faith AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christian Outreach Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- Kingdom Warriors of Yahweh, An Assembly of Yahweh — 0.8 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Shining Light Pentecostal — 0.9 mi away
- Higher Way Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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