Melrose Baptist Church
Melrose Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24017. It is one of 352 churches in Roanoke, and one of 44 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Mission of Melrose Baptist Church is to share Christ’s love as we serve others.
Roanoke, VA, 24017Service times
- Sunday 10:45am · morning service week via YouTube starting
- Sunday 10:30am
Melrose Baptist Church 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 Melrose 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 2,100 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: 51.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (18.9–39.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (3.3–16.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.4–18.1%)
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 Melrose Baptist Church
- Bibleway Pentecostal Apostolic Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Paradise Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Vine Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Guiding Star New Day Ministries COGIC — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Gerards Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Union Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away