Beech Avenue Baptist Church

Beech Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 1206 Ashton Ave in Gastonia, NC 28052-5373. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia.

1206 Ashton Ave, Gastonia, NC, 28052-5373

Phone: +17048645194 · Website: http://www.beechavenuebaptistchurch.com

Beech Avenue 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 Beech Avenue Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Social Isolation: 34.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.8% (12.6–33.0%)
  • Unemployment: 8.9% (1.5–16.3%)
  • Child Poverty: 27.1% (9.8–44.5%)
  • Depression: 24.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Diabetes: 14.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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