Palmer Grove Baptist Church
Palmer Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1606 Kingston Rd in Shelby, NC 28150-9024. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Founded in 1929, Palmer Grove Baptist Church has served the Polkville and Kingstown, North Carolina communities for nearly a century.
1606 Kingston Rd, Shelby, NC, 28150-9024Phone: +17044840017 · Website: https://pgbconline.com/
Palmer Grove 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 — 71,874 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 Palmer Grove Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (8.7–24.1%)
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.2–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Palmer Grove Baptist Church
- John Knox Church — 0.1 mi away in Kingstown, NC
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 1.5 mi away in Kingstown, NC
- Community Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Double Springs Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Golden Ridge Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ — 2 mi away
- Redemption Deliverance Church — 2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Rehobeth Church — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Community Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Double Springs Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Golden Ridge Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Ramseur Church — 2.7 mi away
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