First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 510 D Street in North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. It is one of 69 churches in North Wilkesboro, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
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510 D Street, North Wilkesboro, NC, 28659Website: https://www.firstbaptistnw.org/
First 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 First 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: 33.6%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Poverty Rate: 19.3% (11.9–26.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
North Wilkesboro town is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- SONcrest Outreach Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unified City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hinshaw Street Church — 0.5 mi away
- Northside Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Dannel Chapel — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Restoration Deliverance Ministries — 1.3 mi away
- Wilkesboro Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Wilkesboro, NC
- Friendship Church of The Brethren — 1.6 mi away
- Fairplains Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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