First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a church at 529 South 3rd Street in Smithfield, NC 27577. It is one of 69 churches in Smithfield.
529 South 3rd Street, Smithfield, NC, 27577Phone: +1-919-934-8700
First Free Will 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 Free Will Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (22.2–47.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.5–16.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.2–10.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Smithfield town is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 561 residents.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- First Seventh Day Adventist — 0.3 mi away
- New Generation Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holyrood Anglican Mission — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul's Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God 7th Day — 0.4 mi away
- Smithfield Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mitchener Memorial Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Smithfield Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mitchener Memorial Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Smithfield Free Will Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
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