Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Beckley, WV 25801. It is one of 96 churches in Beckley, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1925 · Services in Spanish
Beckley, WV, 25801Service times
Tuesday Mornings beginning August 25 • 9:30am (as listed)
Phone: (979) 776-9977 · Website: https://centralbcs.org/
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 47.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Poverty Rate: 31.2% (19.9–42.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Depression: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Child Poverty: 28.5% (9.8–47.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Beckley city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 347 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Heart of God Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Outreach For Christ Christian — 0.2 mi away
- East Beckley Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Temple — 0.3 mi away
- United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marys United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jones Memorial Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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