Ebenezer Baptist Church
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 728 Effingham Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
728 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Ebenezer 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.
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The community around Ebenezer 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.4%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.9–35.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.3–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Fourth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Bound Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New St. Mark C.O.G.I.C — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fourth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Court Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Elm Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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