Asheville Street Baptist Church
Asheville Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 119 Asheville Street in Morganton, NC 28655. It is one of 160 churches in Morganton, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
119 Asheville Street, Morganton, NC, 28655Asheville Street 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 Asheville Street Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 33.4%
- Child Poverty: 30.7% (12.5–48.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (11.7–32.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.4% (12.5–26.2%)
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Morganton city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 834 residents.
Churches near Asheville Street Baptist Church
- First Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Meeting Place Mission — 0.4 mi away
- Thrive Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mission Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Burke Community Bible Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Summit Community Church — 0.9 mi away
- Walker Road Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Hmong Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
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