Zion Church

Zion Church is a church at Busy Bee Road in South Hill, VA 23970. It is one of 44 churches in South Hill.

The Zion Baptist Church was organized in the year 1896 under a cherry tree at its present location by a group of 13 baptized Christians who had migrated to Newport News from other areas of Virginia and the Carolinas and who had not affiliated with any local congregation.

Serving since 1896

Busy Bee Road, South Hill, VA, 23970

Service times

  • Sunday 8am · Worship &
  • Sunday 10am · Worship &
  • Wednesday 7pm
  • Sunday 10:30am · Service &

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The community around Zion Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than 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.

  • Obesity: 45.2%
  • Diabetes: 19.9%
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.2% (13.7–32.7%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
  • Child Poverty: 22.4% (7.4–38.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.0–16.2%)

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

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