First Crossroads Baptist Church

First Crossroads Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1122 Melon Rd in South Boston, VA 24592-6684. It is one of 62 churches in South Boston, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

1122 Melon Rd, South Boston, VA, 24592-6684

Phone: +14347532832 · Website: https://drbaministries.org/drba-churches/2018/12/7/first-crossroads-baptist-church

Shares a ministry location with Crossroad Church.

First Crossroads 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 First Crossroads Baptist Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Diabetes: 18.5%
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
  • Obesity: 39.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.8% (10.2–29.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 18.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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