First Baptist Church of New Bern
First Baptist Church of New Bern is a Baptist church at 239 Middle Street in New Bern, NC 28560. It is one of 135 churches in New Bern, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
239 Middle Street, New Bern, NC, 28560First Baptist Church of New Bern is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,419 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 First Baptist Church of New Bern
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (12.5–35.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (4.3–21.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
New Bern city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 1,277 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of New Bern
- Christ Episcopal Church Children's & Youth Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.2 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Cyprian's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Marys Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Free Will Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Generation Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Missionary — 0.7 mi away
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