First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Spencer, NC 28159. It is one of 10 churches in Spencer, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Established in 1856, First Baptist Church has a storied history of proclaiming the Gospel message to Spencer, Roane County and beyond.
Spencer, NC, 28159Service times
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11am
Phone: (304) 927-1421 · Website: https://www.spencerfirstbaptist.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,419 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 33.8%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Child Poverty: 29.9% (11.1–48.7%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (7.0–17.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.2–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Spencer town is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 579 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whosoever Will Let Them Come — 0.2 mi away
- Spencer Methodist Protestant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spencer Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Long Street Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- East Spencer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Southern City Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away in East Spencer, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Spencer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Rowan International Church — 1 mi away in Salisbury, NC
- Oakdale Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- North Main Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Salisbury, NC
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