First Presbyterian Church of Highlands
First Presbyterian Church of Highlands is a Presbyterian church at 471 Main Street in Highlands, NC 28741. It is one of 13 churches in Highlands.
471 Main Street, Highlands, NC, 28741Website: https://www.fpchighlands.com/
First Presbyterian Church of Highlands is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 637 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across North Carolina — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church of Highlands
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): 13.8% (6.8–20.8%)
- 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 Presbyterian Church of Highlands
- Episcopal Church of the Incarnation — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Highlands United Methidist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Highlands Assembly Of God — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Family — 2.1 mi away
- Shortoff Church — 2.2 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 2.4 mi away
- Clear Creek Church — 3.5 mi away
- Whiteside Church — 4.1 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Rabun Gap Presbyterian Church — 12.5 mi away in Rabun Gap, GA
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 13.6 mi away in Franklin, NC
- Cornerstone Presbyterian Church — 14.7 mi away in Franklin, NC
- Emmanuel Presbyterian Church — 15.1 mi away in Franklin, NC
- Clayton Presbyterian Church — 16.6 mi away in Clayton, GA
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