Bessies Chapel Baptist Church
Bessies Chapel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elkin, NC 28621. It is one of 38 churches in Elkin, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elkin, NC, 28621Bessies Chapel 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 Bessies Chapel Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.3% (6.6–37.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.1–29.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.7–18.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.5–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bessies Chapel Baptist Church
- Mulberry Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Valley Church — 1.2 mi away
- Snow Hill Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Dobson, NC
- Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Poplar Springs Church — 2.5 mi away in State Road, NC
- Union Cross Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Gum Orchard Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Little Richmond Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Horizon Church — 3.6 mi away in State Road, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mulberry Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Snow Hill Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Dobson, NC
- Open Door Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Union Cross Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Gum Orchard Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
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