Covenant Baptist Church
Covenant Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 490 NC Highway 294 in Murphy, NC 28906. It is one of 84 churches in Murphy, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
It is our desire that people come to place their trust in Christ to forgive and lead them, and that they grow in their relationship with Him and the local church provides the greatest avenue for encouragement and strength, as well as providing for much needed direction and guidance in these challeng
Welcome to the official website of the Shady Grove Baptist Church, located on Shady Grove Rd in Murphy, NC where the Reverend Gerald Derreberry is our pastor. We are known in the community as one of the friendliest churches around.
490 NC Highway 294, Murphy, NC, 28906Covenant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,417 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 Covenant Baptist Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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: 16.6%
- Social Isolation: 29.7%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (8.5–26.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.6–22.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Covenant Baptist Church
- Ranger Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Refuge Missionary Baptist Church, Murphy, NC — 0.7 mi away
- Bell Hill Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ranger United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Church of God Harris Chapel — 1.6 mi away
- Journey Fellowship — 2 mi away
- Snow Hill Church — 2.2 mi away
- Center Church — 2.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Mountainside — 2.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ranger Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Refuge Missionary Baptist Church, Murphy, NC — 0.7 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Sunny Point Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
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