River Shore Baptist

River Shore Baptist is a Baptist church at 4501 River Shore Road in Portsmouth, VA 23703. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.

4501 River Shore Road, Portsmouth, VA, 23703

River Shore Baptist 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 River Shore Baptist

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: 40.7%
  • Social Isolation: 37.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.5%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.6% (13.1–28.1%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.

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