First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3rd Floor FBC Salisbury in Salisbury, NC 28144. It is one of 178 churches in Salisbury, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
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3rd Floor FBC Salisbury, Salisbury, NC, 28144Phone: (704) 633-0431 · Website: https://fbcsalisbury.org/
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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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 more than 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: 52.3% (37.5–67.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (21.5–50.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (6.3–18.8%)
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (11.5–25.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Salisbury city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 539 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of the Sacred Heart — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Soldiers Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Carolina Family Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Stallings Memorial Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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