Forest Park Baptist Church
Forest Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24017. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 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. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,417 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 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
More Baptist churches nearby
- Villa Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Williams Memorial Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- God's House Baptist Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away