Good News Baptist Church
Good News Baptist Church is a church at 714 Grapevine Rd in Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870. It is one of 66 churches in Roanoke Rapids.
714 Grapevine Rd, Roanoke Rapids, NC, 27870Phone: +12525377389 · Website: https://gnewsbcrr.org/
Good News 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 Good News Baptist Church
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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.6% (29.8–65.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 31.4% (21.9–40.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.3–15.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good News Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina — 0.5 mi away
- Chockoyotte Church — 0.8 mi away
- House of Mandate — 1 mi away
- New Life Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- Smiths Church — 1.1 mi away
- Smith Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Miracle Tabernacle Church of Deliverance — 1.2 mi away in Weldon, NC
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Roanoke Rapids-Roanoke Vly — 1.2 mi away
- Roanoke Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church Halifax North Carolina — 0.5 mi away
- St John the Baptist Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
- Rosemary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Rosemary United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- St Peters Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Weldon, NC
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