Saint Johns Baptist Church
Saint Johns Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2200 Effingham Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 41 Baptist congregations in the city.
2200 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Shares a ministry location with St John Baptist Church.
Saint Johns Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Saint Johns 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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (3.2–25.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (12.4–37.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
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 Saint Johns Baptist Church
- St John Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- TFOGM — 0 mi away
- Antioch Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Church of God & True Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Village Church of Portsmouth — 0.2 mi away
- The Mount Portsmouth — 0.2 mi away
- Portsmouth Christian Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away