Third Baptist Church
Third Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 630 Halifax Street in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH Our HistoryPETERSBURG — The black churches, as a distinguishable group during the 18th and 19th centuries, represented the enslaved people who were trying to come to terms with their existence as slaves in the acclaimed land of “freedom and equality."
Serving since 1842
630 Halifax Street, Petersburg, VA, 23803Third 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 Third Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 53.7%
- Food Insecurity: 44.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 28.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 19.2% (5.8–32.6%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (18.0–41.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0% (11.4–19.1%)
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 Third Baptist Church
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Higher Way Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Outreach Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Warriors of Yahweh, An Assembly of Yahweh — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Solomon's Temple RZUA Church — 0.3 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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