Marthas Chapel
Marthas Chapel is a Free Will Baptist church in Pound, VA 24279. It is one of 22 churches in Pound, and one of 2 Free Will Baptist congregations in the city.
Pound, VA, 24279Marthas Chapel is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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 Marthas Chapel
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Food Insecurity: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (0.9–13.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Marthas Chapel
- Mt Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Independent Bible Church — 1.5 mi away
- Cane Patch Church — 1.6 mi away
- Gladyfork Freewill Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Flat Gap Church — 1.8 mi away
- Pound Church of Christ — 3.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Pound — 3.8 mi away
- Harmony Chapel — 3.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Gladyfork Freewill Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Jenkins, KY
- Mayking Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away