First Baptist Church Gum Branch Rd

First Baptist Church Gum Branch Rd is a church at 1985 Gum Branch Rd in Jacksonville, NC 28540-4580. It is one of 158 churches in Jacksonville.

1985 Gum Branch Rd, Jacksonville, NC, 28540-4580

Phone: +19104552700 · Website: http://fbcjax.net

Shares a ministry location with Catalyst Church.

First Baptist Church Gum Branch Rd 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 Gum Branch Rd

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 13.0% (4.6–21.3%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.6–22.4%)
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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