Anchor Baptist Church
Anchor Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 78 Afton Pkwy in Portsmouth, VA 23702-2848. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
78 Afton Pkwy, Portsmouth, VA, 23702-2848Phone: +17575033094 · Website: https://anchorbaptistofportsmouth.org/
Anchor Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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.
Ministries at Anchor Baptist Church
- Soul Winning
- Sunday School
- Bus Ministry
- Bible Study
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The community around Anchor 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (4.6–22.1%)
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.3% (9.1–29.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Anchor Baptist Church
- Abundant Life Christian Community Center — 0 mi away
- Cradock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chosen for Completion Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Cradock Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cradock Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Connections Worship Center Inc. — 0.8 mi away
- Portsmouth Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- The Way The Truth and The Life Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cradock Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fairview Heights Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Portsmouth — 1.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
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