Gospel Light Baptist Church

Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 890 Maryland Avenue in Waynesboro, VA 22980. It is one of 84 churches in Waynesboro, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.

890 Maryland Avenue, Waynesboro, VA, 22980

Gospel Light 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 Gospel Light Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 42.4%
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.3%
  • Diabetes: 15.1%
  • Depression: 26.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.9–22.2%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

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