Sowders Chapel Baptist Church
Sowders Chapel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2641 Alleghany Spring Rd in Shawsville, VA 24162. It is one of 12 churches in Shawsville, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our goal at Sowders Chapel Baptist Church is simple, lead the lost to Christ and help believers grow in faith.
Sowders Chapel is a warm, friendly church. You will enjoy being welcomed by some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
2641 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, VA, 24162Service times
- Sunday 10am · School
Phone: (540) 998-9081 · Website: https://www.sowderschapel.com/
Sowders Chapel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,726 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,352 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.
Ministries at Sowders Chapel Baptist Church
- Ladies Ministry
- Children's Church
- Teen Ministry
- Men's Ministry
- Music Ministry
- Sunday School
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The community around Sowders Chapel Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (10.7–26.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (6.4–22.1%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.0–14.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sowders Chapel Baptist Church
- Sowders Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Alleghany Church — 1.2 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Texas Hollow Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bonys Run Church — 2.8 mi away
- Vaughns Chapel — 2.8 mi away
- Mountain View Church — 2.9 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 3.2 mi away
- Alleghany Church — 3.2 mi away
- Shawsville Congregational Holiness Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sowders Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Christiansburg, VA
- Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Christiansburg, VA
- Christiansburg Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Christiansburg, VA
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