Joylight Baptist Church
Joylight Baptist Church is a church at 650 Highland Dr in Mt Airy, NC 27030-4336. It is one of 103 churches in Mt Airy.
650 Highland Dr, Mt Airy, NC, 27030-4336Phone: +13367868240 · Website: http://blueridgebaptistcampmeeting.blogspot.com/
Joylight 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 Joylight Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 55.4%
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.7% (26.4–45.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Depression: 28.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (8.8–20.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.0–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Joylight Baptist Church
- Woodland Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of the Brethren — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.5 mi away in Mount Airy, NC
- Zion Church — 0.5 mi away in Mount Airy, NC
- Faith Tabernacle Emmanuel Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Fuente de Vida — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Airy Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rockford Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Woodland Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Church — 0.5 mi away in Mount Airy, NC
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Mount Airy, NC
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