Westwood Heights Baptist Church
Westwood Heights Baptist Church is a church at 650 Dellinger Rd in Shelby, NC 28152-7172. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.
650 Dellinger Rd, Shelby, NC, 28152-7172Phone: +17044069902 · Website: https://westwoodheightsbaptistchurch.org/
Westwood Heights 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 Westwood Heights 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: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Child Poverty: 23.4% (10.0–36.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (11.1–23.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Westwood Heights Baptist Church
- Shelby First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- John Knox Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Cathedral Convergence Anglican Church — 0.6 mi away
- Davidson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Westview Church — 0.7 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Creation Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
- Lafayette Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Destiny Life Center — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Davidson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Way Of The Cross Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Zoar Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Hoppers Chapel Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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