Hester Church
Hester Church is a Baptist church at 6581 Hwy 96, North Oxford, NC, 27565 in Oxford, NC 27565. It is one of 80 churches in Oxford, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
it is our mission to continue to make disciples, as our Lord Jesus has called us to do, and we invite you to come and join us as we follow Jesus together.
Hester Baptist Church has a rich history. Founded in September of 1823 with land donated by Captain Benjamin F. Hester, the church was named in his honor.
Serving since 1823
6581 Hwy 96, North Oxford, NC, 27565, Oxford, NC, 27565Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
Phone: (919) 693-7380 · Website: https://hesterbaptist.church/
Hester 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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Latest from Drew Hester's YouTube channel: Pastoring the People on Your Team [Dylan Hofmann, Christ Fellowship] (all videos).
The community around Hester Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (19.6–50.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (10.3–28.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (6.4–18.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Hester Church
- Hebron Church — 1 mi away
- Huntsville Church — 1.6 mi away
- Good Shepherd Ministries — 1.7 mi away
- Hardies Grove Church — 2.9 mi away
- New Horizons Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint Stephens Church — 3.6 mi away
- Whetstone Church — 3.7 mi away
- Delrayno Church — 3.8 mi away
- Chapel Hill Church — 3.9 mi away
- Morning Star Church — 3.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Horizons Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Delrayno Church — 3.8 mi away
- New Corinth Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Oxford Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
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