First Baptist Church of Forest City
First Baptist Church of Forest City is a Baptist church in Forest City, NC 28043. It is one of 58 churches in Forest City, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Forest City, NC, 28043Service times
- Sunday 11am · morning
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Website: https://fbcforestcity.com/
First Baptist Church of Forest City 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 of Forest City
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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 42.7% (27.5–57.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (24.6–42.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.5–21.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Forest City town is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 424 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Forest City
- New Bethel AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Chapel Forest City — 0.5 mi away
- Florence Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Nazarene Church — 0.7 mi away
- Forest City Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- The Source Ministries NC — 0.8 mi away
- Forest City First Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Florence Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Source Ministries NC — 0.8 mi away
- Crestview Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- True World Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Tri City Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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