Walls Memorial Baptist Church

Walls Memorial Baptist Church is a church at 2223 Elizabeth Ave in Shelby, NC 28150-9612. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.

2223 Elizabeth Ave, Shelby, NC, 28150-9612

Phone: +17044843433 · Website: http://www.wallsmemorialshelby.org

Walls Memorial 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 Walls Memorial Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 12.1% (4.4–19.7%)
  • Social Isolation: 32.7%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Obesity: 38.8%
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.1% (7.6–32.7%)
  • Food Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.6–20.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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