Fairwood Agape Baptist Church
Fairwood Agape Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3709 Elliott Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23701. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
3709 Elliott Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23701Fairwood Agape 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 Fairwood Agape 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 38.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.1–16.4%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
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 Fairwood Agape Baptist Church
- Holy Trinity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Gospel Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Guiding Light Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Biltmore Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The United House of Prayer for All People — 0.5 mi away
- New Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tidewater Church — 0.6 mi away
- Forward church — 0.6 mi away
- Alexander Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Biltmore Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Alexander Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Noble Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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