First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 321 West Main Avenue in Taylorsville, NC 28681. It is one of 54 churches in Taylorsville, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church is a fellowship of caring, Christian believers, created in the image of God, who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Serving since 1851
321 West Main Avenue, Taylorsville, NC, 28681Phone: (828) 632-4225 · Website: http://www.taylorsvillefirstbaptist.com/
First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Daycare
- Crisis Center
- Operation Christmas Child
- Missions Support
- Worship and Ministry at Correctional Institute
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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 adults here carry depression. 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: 37.5%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Child Poverty: 23.0% (6.7–39.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (11.4–21.8%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Taylorsville town is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,070 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Reformation Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Taylorsville Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liledoun Road Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Carmel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Taylorsville Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Beulah Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Carmel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah Church — 0.9 mi away
- East Taylorsville Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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