Forest Park Baptist Church
Forest Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24017. It is one of 315 churches in Roanoke, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24017Shares a ministry location with Perfecting Unity Church.
Forest Park Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Forest Park Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (16.3–36.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (1.9–17.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Child Poverty: 28.3% (10.1–46.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Forest Park Baptist Church
- Perfecting Unity Church — 0 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Gathering Place — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.4 mi away
- The Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- Villa Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Glorious Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mt. Zion AME Church — 0.6 mi away