Balm of Gilead Church
Balm of Gilead Church is a church in Suffolk, VA 23434. It is one of 212 churches in Suffolk.
Suffolk, VA, 23434Find Balm of Gilead Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Balm of Gilead Church
It takes 3.4 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.5–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Suffolk city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 687 residents.
Churches near Balm of Gilead Church
- Cypress Chapel Christian Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Ararat Church — 2.7 mi away
- Liberty Spring Christian Church — 4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- New First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Pauls Branch Church — 4.5 mi away
- Higher Dimensions Family Outreach Center — 4.5 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 4.8 mi away
- Great Fork Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 5.4 mi away