Whitnel First Baptist Church
Whitnel First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lenoir, NC 28645. It is one of 139 churches in Lenoir, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lenoir, NC, 28645Whitnel 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 Whitnel First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.8–18.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lenoir city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 541 residents.
Churches near Whitnel First Baptist Church
- Calvary Advent Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Whitnel — 0.6 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- South Lenoir Church Of God — 0.9 mi away
- Harrisburg Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Whitnel — 0.6 mi away
- WaterLife Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Heavenly Hope Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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