First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 145 Saint David Street in Halifax, NC 27839. It is one of 23 churches in Halifax, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

145 Saint David Street, Halifax, NC, 27839

Service times

  • Sunday 8am · - &
  • Sunday 9:30am · - &
  • Sunday 11am · - &
  • Wednesday 6:15pm

Website: http://centralbaptist.com/

First 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 First Baptist Church

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Child Poverty: 58.1% (40.2–76.0%)
  • Obesity: 47.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 35.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
  • Diabetes: 22.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
  • Unemployment: 14.8% (5.0–24.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.0% (18.7–37.4%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%

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

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