Dover Baptist Church

Dover Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shelby, NC 28150. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.

Shelby, NC, 28150

Service times

  • Sunday 10am
  • Wednesday 7pm
  • Tuesday 6pm · of th WMU

Dover 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 Dover Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 42.9%
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.6% (14.2–37.1%)
  • Food Insecurity: 24.7%
  • Diabetes: 17.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.3%

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

Shelby city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 570 residents.

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