First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 722 Sikes Ave in Wadesboro, NC 28170-1638. It is one of 48 churches in Wadesboro, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Baptist Wadesboro - North Carolina is to spread the gospel, to share the love of Jesus Christ, and to transform the lives of people in our community and abroad.
First Baptist seeks to establish character building and community programs as an outgrowth of Christian concern for the total spiritual development based upon our confession to Jesus Christ.
722 Sikes Ave, Wadesboro, NC, 28170-1638Phone: +17046943539 · Website: https://fbcsikes.org/
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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Child Poverty: 39.4% (21.0–57.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.1–34.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (1.9–18.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Wadesboro Church Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kesler Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater St. Mark Church of Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
- North Wadesboro Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Wadesboro Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cathedral Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bethany Freewill Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
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