First Baptist Church Newland

First Baptist Church Newland is a Baptist church at 160 Cranberry Street in Newland, NC 28657. It is one of 56 churches in Newland, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.

160 Cranberry Street, Newland, NC, 28657

Phone: (828) 733-9092 · Website: http://firstbaptistnewland.com/

First Baptist Church Newland is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,420 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 Newland

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (10.4–21.0%)
  • Obesity: 36.6%
  • Social Isolation: 30.2%
  • Depression: 25.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
  • Diabetes: 13.2%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (2.2–13.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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