Lahu Baptist Church
Lahu Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 710 E 20th St in Newton, NC 28658-2011. It is one of 66 churches in Newton, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lahu Baptist Church is a multicultural Baptist church in Newton NC founded in 2000 by Reverend Mark Meeseree.
Serving since 2000
710 E 20th St, Newton, NC, 28658-2011Service times
- Sunday 11am · Service
Phone: 18282912349 · Website: https://lahubaptistchurch.wordpress.com/
Lahu 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 Lahu Baptist Church
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: 34.9%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Food Insecurity: 19.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.3–20.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.2–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lahu Baptist Church
- Conover Gospel Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- North Newton Church — 0.8 mi away
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Great Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Conover, NC
- Vida Vertical — 0.9 mi away
- Today's Grace PHC — 1.1 mi away
- Fires Presbyterian Church Newton — 1.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Great Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Conover, NC
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Conover, NC
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