First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina
First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina is a Baptist church in Roanoke Rapids, NC. It is one of 66 churches in Roanoke Rapids, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Lucama is a place you can call home. We exist to help people know God, find freedom, discover purpose, and make a difference. At First Baptist Lucama, our doors hang on welcome hinges, meaning that people from all backgrounds, regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey, are welcome here.Our goal is to create engaging, powerful worship experiences that offer biblical truth in relevant and practical ways.
Roanoke Rapids, NCService times
- Sunday 8:45am
Phone: (252) 239-0287 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistlucama.org/index.html
First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina 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 First Baptist Lucama's YouTube channel: FBL Worship Experience - July 26, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 43.4% (26.0–60.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (20.5–38.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.0–14.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina
- Chockoyotte Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Miracle Tabernacle Church of Deliverance — 0.7 mi away in Weldon, NC
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- House of Mandate — 0.8 mi away
- Roanoke Rapids First Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.9 mi away
- Valley Community Church — 0.9 mi away in Weldon, NC
- Embrace Life - Valley Community Church, Weldon, NC — 1 mi away in Weldon, NC
- Central Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Peters Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Weldon, NC
- First Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Weldon, NC
- St John the Baptist Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away
- Rosemary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
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