First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 107 E Washington Ave in Bessemer City, NC 28016-2351. It is one of 41 churches in Bessemer City.
107 E Washington Ave, Bessemer City, NC, 28016-2351Phone: (704) 629-4158 · Website: http://www.abc-usa.org
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (9.0–24.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.7–17.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Wesleyan Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sunset Lane Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St John CHCOG — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah Land Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church BC — 1.2 mi away
- Sunnyside Baptist Church — 2 mi away
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