Bear Paw Baptist Church
Bear Paw Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 55 Bear Paw Church Road in Murphy, NC 28906. It is one of 84 churches in Murphy, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
55 Bear Paw Church Road, Murphy, NC, 28906Bear Paw 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 Bear Paw Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Social Isolation: 29.1%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (9.1–24.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bear Paw Baptist Church
- Reids Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- The Church of God - Fields of the Woods — 2.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Hope Church — 3.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Sunny Point Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Shoal Creek Church — 4.2 mi away
- Refuge Missionary Baptist Church, Murphy, NC — 4.5 mi away
- Flax Creek Church — 4.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Sunny Point Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Refuge Missionary Baptist Church, Murphy, NC — 4.5 mi away
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