Gibson Avenue Baptist Church
Gibson Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wilmington, NC 28403. It is one of 266 churches in Wilmington, and one of 40 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wilmington, NC, 28403Gibson Avenue 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 Gibson Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (23.7–47.4%)
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (12.5–26.8%)
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Child Poverty: 23.5% (3.8–43.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Wilmington city is served by 93 churches — about one congregation for every 1,174 residents.
Churches near Gibson Avenue Baptist Church
- The River at Wrightsville Ave. Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Wrightsville Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Wilmington Spanish SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- Freedom's Way Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Winter Park Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge Church — 0.5 mi away
- CityLife Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Marks Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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