Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1200 Hodges Ferry Road in Portsmouth, VA 23701. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.
1200 Hodges Ferry Road, Portsmouth, VA, 23701Website: http://www.discovercentral.org/
Shares a ministry location with Watermark Bible Church.
Central 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (4.5–14.1%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Watermark Bible Church — 0 mi away
- Holy Neck Chrisitan Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Communion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Portsmouth United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- United Congregational Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Portsmouth Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Andrews United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pinecrest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pinecrest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Green Lakes Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Collinswood Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Taylor Road Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
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