Penn Avenue Baptist Church
Penn Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 125 Penn Ave in Oxford, NC 27565-3242. It is one of 80 churches in Oxford.
125 Penn Ave, Oxford, NC, 27565-3242Phone: +19196935396 · Website: http://www.pennavenuembc.com
Penn Avenue 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 Penn Avenue 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 48.0% (30.6–65.4%)
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (13.9–30.8%)
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (3.3–13.4%)
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Penn Avenue Baptist Church
- Emanuel Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Oxford United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Temple — 0.2 mi away
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion United Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Fellowship Christian — 0.3 mi away
- Oxford Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oxford Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oxford Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Delrayno Church — 1.4 mi away
- Tabbs Creek Church — 2.8 mi away
- New Horizons Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
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