Laurel Creek Baptist Church
Laurel Creek Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 25985.
WV, 25985Laurel Creek Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,417 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 Laurel Creek Baptist Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Depression: 29.7%
- Food Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.4–25.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.4–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Laurel Creek Baptist Church
- Laurel Creek Church — 0.8 mi away
- Sandstone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mountain View Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Colmans Roman Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away in Hinton, WV
- Chestnut Mountain Church — 2.7 mi away in Hinton, WV
- Brooks Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Hinton, WV
- Ramp Holiness Church — 3.3 mi away
- Meadow Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Ramp Church — 3.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sandstone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Brooks Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Hinton, WV
- Meadow Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Hinton, WV