First Calvary Baptist Church

First Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Salisbury, NC 28144. It is one of 178 churches in Salisbury, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 1866

Salisbury, NC, 28144

Service times

  • Sunday 11am · Worship Service Morning Worship Service begins
  • Wednesday 6pm · evening

First Calvary 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 Calvary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 41.7%
  • Social Isolation: 33.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.5% (15.9–39.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.3%
  • Diabetes: 15.6%
  • Child Poverty: 24.6% (9.0–40.2%)
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.6–18.9%)
  • Unemployment: 7.0% (2.7–11.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Salisbury city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 539 residents.

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