Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6504 HWY 55 WEST in Kinston, NC 28504. It is one of 142 churches in Kinston, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
6504 HWY 55 WEST, Kinston, NC, 28504Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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: 32.5% (15.9–49.1%)
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.0–28.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Holy Innocents Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away in Seven Springs, NC
- Holy Innocence Church — 0.7 mi away in Seven Springs, NC
- Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Dalys Chapel — 2.4 mi away in Seven Springs, NC
- Hickory Grove Church — 3.3 mi away in La Grange, NC
- Holly Grove Church — 3.3 mi away in La Grange, NC
- Jerusalem Church — 3.5 mi away in Seven Springs, NC
- Candlelight Fwb Church — 3.6 mi away
- Gradys Chapel — 3.6 mi away in Seven Springs, NC
- Sandy Bottom Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sandy Bottom Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Albertson Missionary Baptist — 6.2 mi away in Albertson, NC
- Unity Free Will Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in La Grange, NC
- Community Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in La Grange, NC
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