Rakin Lake Baptist Church

Rakin Lake Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2705 Gastonia-Dallas Hwy, Dallas, NC, 28034 in Gastonia, NC 28034. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.

Reaching the unreached with the gospel of Jesus Christ and Taking Jesus Christ to the streets.

Salvation Church was planted in the west Gastonia area for the purpose of reaching the unreached for Jesus Christ.

2705 Gastonia-Dallas Hwy, Dallas, NC, 28034, Gastonia, NC, 28034

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am

Phone: (704) 922-4806 · Website: http://www.salvationchurchnc.org/

Rakin Lake 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 Rakin Lake Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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 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: 35.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.5%
  • Obesity: 38.9%
  • Depression: 26.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.4–26.4%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (7.3–19.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Gastonia city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 3,942 residents.

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