First Baptist Church Drexel
First Baptist Church Drexel is a church at 200 S Main St in Drexel, NC 28619. It is one of 3 churches in Drexel.
200 S Main St, Drexel, NC, 28619Phone: (828) 437-3351 · Website: http://www.drexelfirstbaptist.org
First Baptist Church Drexel 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 First Baptist Church Drexel
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.0–23.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.7–18.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.0–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church Drexel
- Eben-Ezer Morganton — 0.1 mi away
- Drexel First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Drexel Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Valdese, NC
- Drexel Christian Center — 0.8 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Bethlehem Church — 0.9 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Great Hope Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Enon Church — 1.2 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Zion Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Morganton, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Drexel Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Valdese, NC
- Enon Church — 1.2 mi away in Morganton, NC
- Bridgeport Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Valdese, NC
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Valdese, NC