Greater Joy Baptist Church
Greater Joy Baptist Church is a church at 322 Anderson St in Rocky Mount, NC 27803-4001. It is one of 189 churches in Rocky Mount.
322 Anderson St, Rocky Mount, NC, 27803-4001Phone: +12524420958 · Website: https://www.greaterjoymbc.org/
Greater Joy 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 Greater Joy Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 34.1% (16.0–52.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.5% (14.7–32.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.1–16.8%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.0–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Joy Baptist Church
- Church On The Rise Pfc — 0.2 mi away
- City of Shalom Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Salvation Army Rocky Mount Corps — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Of Deliverance — 0.3 mi away
- Dunimus Outreach Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Foster Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Red Budd Holy Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Truth Tabernacle Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church, Rocky Mount, North Carolina — 1.1 mi away
- Hickory View MBChurch — 1.2 mi away
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