Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church
Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church is a Brethren church at 3833 Michigan Avenue Northwest in Roanoke, VA 24017. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 4 Brethren congregations in the city.
3833 Michigan Avenue Northwest, Roanoke, VA, 24017Service times
- Sunday 10am · GatheringStarting
Phone: (540) 798-1651 · Website: http://www.whgbc.com/
Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church is part of the Anabaptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 75 congregations of the Anabaptist family gather across Virginia — 1,098 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Anabaptists paid with their lives for believers' baptism and freedom of conscience centuries before either was safe to hold, and every church in America now enjoys what they died for. Their disaster-relief crews, arriving quietly after every flood and fire, and their refusal to return violence remain a standing witness to the rest of us.
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The community around Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (14.9–35.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (1.7–16.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.9% (9.4–46.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
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 Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church
- Mega Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- God's House Baptist Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Perfecting Unity Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Glorious Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- New Century Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church Alive International — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Maranatha Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
More Anabaptist churches nearby
- Ghent Grace Brethren Church — 2.6 mi away
- Williamson Road Church of the Brethren — 3.2 mi away
- Ninth Street Church of the Brethren — 4.5 mi away