First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roxboro, NC 27573. It is one of 96 churches in Roxboro, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelchair accessible
Roxboro, NC, 27573Shares a ministry location with Roxboro Baptist Church.
First 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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Latest from Roxboro Baptist Church's YouTube channel: August 2, 2026 Roxboro Baptist Church "Living Scripture" (all videos).
The community around First 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. About 2 in 3 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: 69.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (20.6–39.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (8.9–22.4%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Roxboro city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 944 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Roxboro Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- New Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Long Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Azusa Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace/Ca-Vel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Rock Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Roxboro Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mebane Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Rock Community Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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