First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 220 Main Street in Highlands, NC 28741. It is one of 13 churches in Highlands.
Services in Spanish
220 Main Street, Highlands, NC, 28741Phone: 828-526-4153 · Website: https://fbchighlands.org/
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 — 71,874 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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Latest from FBC HIGHLANDS NC's YouTube channel: 8/2/2026 Sunday Service 10:45am (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 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 nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Social Isolation: 26.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.8–20.7%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Highlands town is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 407 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Highlands United Methidist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Highlands — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Incarnation — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highlands Assembly Of God — 0.5 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Family — 2 mi away
- Shortoff Church — 2.1 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 2.3 mi away
- Clear Creek Church — 3.6 mi away
- Whiteside Church — 4.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Yellow Mountain Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Cullowhee, NC
- Christ Church of the Valley Worship Center — 6.9 mi away in Cashiers, NC
- Cashiers Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Cashiers, NC
- Tessentee Church — 7.5 mi away in Franklin, NC
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Clayton, GA
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