First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 302 E Church St in Laurinburg, NC 28352-3856. It is one of 74 churches in Laurinburg, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
302 E Church St, Laurinburg, NC, 28352-3856Phone: +19102762161 · Website: https://www.fbclaurinburg.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 — 71,872 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 55.9%
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (6.7–15.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bright Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Margaret Bible Pentecostal — 0.4 mi away
- Wilson Chapel Holy Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- St James Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Lighthouse Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Laurel Hill Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Laurel Hill, NC
- Eastside Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in McColl, SC
- Spring Branch Church — 8.8 mi away in Wagram, NC
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