Buff Creek Church

Buff Creek Church is a Baptist church in Sylva, NC 28779. It is one of 45 churches in Sylva, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.

Sylva, NC, 28779

Buff Creek 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 Buff Creek Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, 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: 32.8%
  • Depression: 26.8%
  • Child Poverty: 22.6% (6.5–40.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.8% (11.3–26.4%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.5–21.4%)
  • Diabetes: 13.0%
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (1.5–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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