First Baptist Church of Newton
First Baptist Church of Newton is a Baptist church in Newton, NC 28658. It is one of 66 churches in Newton, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newton, NC, 28658First Baptist Church of Newton 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 First Baptist Church of Newton
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (2.3–10.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newton city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Newton
- Vertical Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Cove Church - Catawba Valley Campus — 0.4 mi away in Conover, NC
- First United Methodist Church Newton — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beth Eden Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fires Presbyterian Church Newton — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany — 0.6 mi away
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Andrew's Anglican Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Andrew's Anglican Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church Newton — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- East First Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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