Newton County Baptist Church
Newton County Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 14684 S 250 W in Kentland, IN 47951-8530. It is one of 6 churches in Kentland, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
14684 S 250 W, Kentland, IN, 47951-8530Phone: +12194749710 · Website: https://www.newtoncountyindiana.com/religious-orgs
Newton County Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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.
Find Newton County Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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The community around Newton County Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 45.2%
- Unemployment: 15.2% (6.8–23.6%)
- Child Poverty: 31.0% (15.6–46.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Social Isolation: 31.8%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (10.2–22.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Newton County Baptist Church
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Covenant Federated Christian — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 4.2 mi away
- Raub United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Earl Park, IN
- Church of Christ — 6.5 mi away in Sheldon, IL
- Sheldon Church of the Nazarene — 6.8 mi away in Sheldon, IL
- First Christian Church — 6.8 mi away in Brook, IN
- Brook United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Brook, IN
More Baptist churches nearby
- Goodland Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Goodland, IN
- First Baptist Church — 14.7 mi away in Watseka, IL
- Brookside Church — 18.1 mi away in Rensselaer, IN
- Open Bible Baptist Church — 18.1 mi away in Rensselaer, IN
- Tri County Baptist Church — 20.9 mi away in Ambia, IN