Greater St John Baptist Church
Greater St John Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 819 Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Asheboro, NC 27203. It is one of 134 churches in Asheboro, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
We consider our church congregation as a family! We share in each other's joys and sorrows as we continue to worship and serve our Savior.
Serving since 1886
819 Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Asheboro, NC, 27203Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: +13366251808 · Website: https://stjohnsbaptistchurch.org/
Greater St John Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Greater St John Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Upcoming events at Greater St John Baptist Church
- Thu, Aug 6 · 8 AM: Weekday School — 300 Hawthorne Lane
- Thu, Aug 6 · 5:30 PM: Personnel Resource Team — Conference Room
- Fri, Aug 7 · 8 PM: Eastway AA — Lasater Hall
- Sat, Aug 8 · 6:30 AM: Benton Basketball Group — Gym
- Sat, Aug 8 · 8 PM: NA-Together We Rise — Lasater Hall
From Greater St John Baptist Church's public calendar (https://stjohnsbaptistchurch.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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Latest from Greater St John Baptist Church of Asheboro's YouTube channel: Sunday Service 08/02/2026 (all videos).
The community around Greater St John Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 51.2% (33.0–69.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 26.2%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (18.5–38.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (5.8–20.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Asheboro city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 3,155 residents.
Churches near Greater St John Baptist Church
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Getsemani — 0.3 mi away
- Soul Saving Station Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Life Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- LIFEchurch Asheboro — 0.5 mi away
- Asheboro First Evangelical and Reformed United Church Of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Zion Holy Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- St. Luke United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greystone Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greystone Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Redeemer Baptist Church-Asheboro,NC — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- East Side Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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