Sweet Union Baptist Church
Sweet Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Madison Avenue Northwest in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Madison Avenue Northwest, Roanoke, VA, 24016Phone: (540) 345-3843 · Website: http://www.sweetunionbc.com/
Sweet Union 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 Sweet Union 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 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (22.2–53.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.5–15.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Sweet Union Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Guiding Star New Day Ministries COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Gerards Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ironside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away