Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 530 Bethany Rd in Gastonia, NC 28052-7709. It is one of 135 churches in Gastonia, and one of 29 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: (704) 864-6634 · Website: https://southsidebaptistonline.wordpress.com/
Southside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,572 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,352 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.
Ministries at Southside Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Children's Ministry
- Preschool Ministry
- WMU & Brotherhood
- Deacons Meeting
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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
- Gastonia Seventh Day Adventist — 1 mi away
- Crowders Creek Church — 1.4 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 1.8 mi away
- Chapel Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Unity Church — 2.8 mi away in Kings Mountain, NC
- Mount Pleasant Church — 3 mi away
- Yorkwood Church of God — 3.1 mi away
- Providence Place Church — 3.3 mi away
- Pisgah Church — 3.4 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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