Gospel Light Baptist Church
Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8602 Main Street in Vanceboro, NC 28586. It is one of 31 churches in Vanceboro.
8602 Main Street, Vanceboro, NC, 28586Gospel Light 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 Gospel Light Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (3.1–13.2%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (8.7–25.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gospel Light Baptist Church
- Queen Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Deliverance Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Burning Bush United Holy Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vanceboro Pentecostal Hilliness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Vanceboro Freewill Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Vanceboro Global Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.9 mi away
- Vanceboro Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Shabach AME Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cool Springs Free Will Baptist — 6.2 mi away
- Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Grifton, NC
- Corinth Missionary Baptist Church — 10.8 mi away in Dover, NC
- Life Gate Baptist Church — 12.3 mi away in Greenville, NC
- Karen Baptist Church of New Bern — 13.3 mi away in New Bern, NC
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