Penelope Baptist Church
Penelope Baptist Church is a church at 3310 Main Ave NW in Hickory, NC 28601. It is one of 165 churches in Hickory.
3310 Main Ave NW, Hickory, NC, 28601Phone: +18283224237 · Website: http://www.penelopebaptistchurch.org
Penelope 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 Penelope Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, 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: 34.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (10.3–20.2%)
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Child Poverty: 22.0% (8.6–35.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Penelope Baptist Church
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- Longview Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.8 mi away in Long View, NC
- Holy Ground Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ United Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Long View, NC
- Hickory Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1 mi away
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