Gospel Light Baptist Church

Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Independent Baptist church at 1824 Mt Olive Church Rd in Newton, NC 28658-1641. It is one of 66 churches in Newton.

Gospel Light Baptist Church is an old-fashioned Independent Baptist Church with Bible preaching and teaching that is sound, relevant, and practical.

Services in Spanish

1824 Mt Olive Church Rd, Newton, NC, 28658-1641

Service times

  • Sunday 11am · mornings

Phone: +18284652226 · Website: https://glbcs.org/

Gospel Light 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.

Ministries at Gospel Light Baptist Church

  • Nursery
  • Primaries
  • Juniors
  • Junior church
  • Bus Ministry
  • Iglesia Bautista Luz del Evangelio
  • Master Clubs
  • Ladies Fellowship
  • Gospel Light Christian School
  • Gospel Light Christian Camp
  • REFORMERS UNANIMOUS
  • Preacher's Retreat

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The community around Gospel Light Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Obesity: 40.5%
  • Social Isolation: 35.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (7.4–23.0%)
  • Depression: 26.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
  • Child Poverty: 23.9% (14.6–33.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 18.3% (10.7–25.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
  • Unemployment: 7.6% (2.2–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

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