Roaring Creek Freewill Baptist Church
Roaring Creek Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1726 Roaring Creek Road in Newland, NC 28657. It is one of 56 churches in Newland, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
1726 Roaring Creek Road, Newland, NC, 28657Website: https://www.facebook.com/rcfwb/
Roaring Creek Freewill 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 Roaring Creek Freewill Baptist Church
It takes 3.2 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% (9.3–22.1%)
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Social Isolation: 30.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (8.9–26.3%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Roaring Creek Freewill Baptist Church
- Roaring Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beech Bottom Mennonite Church — 1.6 mi away
- McCoury’s Rock Free Will Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Powdermill Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Frank Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away
- Crab Orchard Free Will Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Mountain View Freewill Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Burleson Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Henson Creek Church — 2.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Roaring Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- McCoury’s Rock Free Will Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Powdermill Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Crab Orchard Free Will Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
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