Wrights Creek Baptist Church
Wrights Creek Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Cherokee, NC 28719. It is one of 29 churches in Cherokee, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Cherokee, NC, 28719Wrights Creek 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 Wrights Creek 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 about a third 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): 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (16.5–32.7%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.7–17.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wrights Creek Baptist Church
- The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Water Falls Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bigwitch Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Wesleyan Church — 1.9 mi away
- Blue Wing Church — 2.1 mi away
- Cherokee United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Piney Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Cherokee Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- Sequoyah Sovereign Grace Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bigwitch Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Sequoyah Sovereign Grace Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Rock Springs Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
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