Jerusalem Church of God in Christ
Jerusalem Church of God in Christ is a church at 300 Phillips Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23707. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth.
300 Phillips Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23707Jerusalem Church of God in Christ is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 487 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Virginia — 17,437 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around Jerusalem Church of God in Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half 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: 48.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (16.4–39.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (0.7–12.4%)
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 Jerusalem Church of God in Christ
- One Love Restoration Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- NFBCT Portsmouth — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Bethel Reformed Zion United Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Nebo Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Matthew Church of Christ Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Celestial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chosen Generation Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- Christian Antioch — 0.8 mi away
- Portsmouth Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Union Pentecostal Church Number 2 — 0.9 mi away
- Saint James Church of God in Christ — 1.2 mi away
- Port Norfolk Pentecostal Assembly Church — 1.2 mi away
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