Gateway Free Will Baptist Church

Gateway Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5473 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, VA 23462. It is one of 374 churches in Virginia Beach, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.

5473 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · Morning

Phone: +1-757-499-9686 · Website: https://www.gatewaychurchvb.org/

Gateway Free Will 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 Gateway Free Will 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 40.3%
  • Obesity: 42.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.7% (10.5–34.9%)
  • Unemployment: 8.5% (2.7–14.3%)
  • Depression: 24.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
  • Diabetes: 14.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Virginia Beach city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 3,847 residents.

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