Loray Baptist Church
Loray Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1128 West Franklin Boulevard in Gastonia, NC 28052. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Loray Baptist Church in Gastonia, North Carolina, is dedicated to worship, community service, and spiritual growth.
1128 West Franklin Boulevard, Gastonia, NC, 28052Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School begins
Website: http://www.loraybaptist.org/
Loray 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 Loray Baptist Church
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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.7%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (15.1–37.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.9–16.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (0.7–15.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gastonia city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 3,942 residents.
Churches near Loray Baptist Church
- Revolution Church — 0.1 mi away
- West Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Gastonia Church of God by Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Assurance Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- The Training Center — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Citizens Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bradley Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Revolution Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Kimberly Moore Ministries — 0.9 mi away
- Mcadenville Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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