South Branch Baptist Church
South Branch Baptist Church is a Independent Baptist church at 96 S Grove St in Petersburg, WV 26847. It is one of 26 churches in Petersburg, and one of 2 Independent Baptist congregations in the city.
We strive to be a church with our foundation on Christ, our practice in the Word of God, and our emphasis on the Gospel and serving others.
96 S Grove St, Petersburg, WV, 26847Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship Service
Phone: (304) 257-1510 · Website: https://www.southbranchbaptist.com/
South Branch 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.
Ministries at South Branch Baptist Church
- Prayer and Bible Study
- Patch the Pirate program
- Elevate Youth Group
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The community around South Branch Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (11.1–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.6–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near South Branch Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grove Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Presbyterian Church Petersburg — 0.2 mi away
- 'The Rock' Petersburg Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Branch Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Moorefield Baptist Church — 12 mi away in Moorefield, WV
- Old Fields Church — 13.4 mi away
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