Macedonia Baptist Church
Macedonia Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1181 Wolfetown Road ᏩᏲᎯ ᏫᎦᏅᏅ in Cherokee, NC 28719. It is one of 29 churches in Cherokee, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Macedonia is the second oldest Baptist Church on the Qualla Boundary home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Founded in 1854 originally located on Macedonia Baptist Church Road. The church was moved to its present location in 1940.
1181 Wolfetown Road ᏩᏲᎯ ᏫᎦᏅᏅ, Cherokee, NC, 28719Phone: (828) 497-1611 · Website: https://macedoniabaptistcherokee.church/
Macedonia 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.
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The community around Macedonia Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.9% (29.3–54.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.1%
- Food Insecurity: 26.6%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (16.6–34.5%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (4.3–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Macedonia Baptist Church
- Wesleyan Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blue Wing Church — 0.7 mi away
- Water Falls Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cherokee United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cherokee Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
- The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wrights Creek Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Rock Springs Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- New Song Church Cherokee NC — 2 mi away
- Cherokee Bible Church — 2.2 mi away in Whittier, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wrights Creek Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Rock Springs Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Bigwitch Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Cherokee Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
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