New River Baptist Church
New River Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sparta, NC 28675. It is one of 36 churches in Sparta, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sparta, NC, 28675Service times
- Tuesday, Friday 10am
New River 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 New River Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Child Poverty: 25.0% (10.1–39.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (8.3–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New River Baptist Church
- New Haven Church of the Brethren — 1 mi away
- White Plains Union Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- St. Frances of Rome Catholic — 2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall — 2 mi away
- Sparta United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Sparta Presbyterian Church — 2.8 mi away
- Bethany Church — 2.8 mi away in Independence, VA
- First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Community Church — 3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- White Plains Union Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Elk Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- God's Will Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
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