Grove Park Baptist Church
Grove Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1400 Rodman Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23707. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 51 Baptist congregations in the city.
1400 Rodman Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23707Website: http://www.gpbcllc.com/
Grove Park 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 Grove Park 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 live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Food Insecurity: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.9–33.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Grove Park Baptist Church
- Victory Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Victory Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Portsmouth Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crossroads United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Father's House International — 0.3 mi away
- Gates of Heaven Outreach Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westhaven Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Celestial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Alexander Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Hermon Baptist Temple — 0.9 mi away
- Noble Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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