Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 530 Bethany Rd in Gastonia, NC 28052-7709. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Church has at least four basic responsibilities. First, she is to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. Second, she is to help people grow toward maturity. Third, she is to go into the world to witness and serve. Fourth, she is to subject the world to a Christian perspective.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
530 Bethany Rd, Gastonia, NC, 28052-7709Service times
- Thursday 4pm
Phone: +17048646634 · Website: https://southsidebaptistonline.wordpress.com/
Southside 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 Southside Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 33.6%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (1.4–16.8%)
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Food Insecurity: 17.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (7.1–28.0%)
- Diabetes: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.0–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Southside Baptist Church
- Trinity Church — 0.5 mi away
- Crowders Creek Church — 0.9 mi away
- Gastonia Seventh Day Adventist — 1 mi away
- The Refuge — 1.2 mi away
- Crowders Creek Church — 1.4 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 1.8 mi away
- Chapel Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Words of Restorations — 2.8 mi away
- Unity Church — 2.8 mi away in Kings Mountain, NC
- Soul's Harbor Tabernacle — 2.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Chapel Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Providence Place Church — 3.3 mi away
- Ridge Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Charity Independent Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Weeping Mary Church — 3.6 mi away in Clover, SC
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