Pleasant Union Baptist Church
Pleasant Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Suffolk, VA 23434. It is one of 211 churches in Suffolk, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.
Suffolk, VA, 23434Pleasant Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,420 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 Pleasant Union Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (7.7–27.3%)
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 Pleasant Union Baptist Church
- Saint Paul's Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Elder Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostals Of Suffolk — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Suffolk Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Joy Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Capernaum Seventh Day Adventist — 0.6 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lakeview Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- East End Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away