Point Pleasant Baptist Church
Point Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newport, TN 37821. It is one of 88 churches in Newport, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newport, TN, 37821Point Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Point Pleasant Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Depression: 30.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (7.4–38.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.7–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Point Pleasant Baptist Church
- Six Forks Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Home Church — 1.7 mi away
- Joseph Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- McCowan Creek Church — 2.5 mi away
- Toneys Chapel — 2.6 mi away in Morristown, TN
- Beth-Car Church — 2.6 mi away in White Pine, TN
- Enterprise Church — 3 mi away in Morristown, TN
- Centerview Church — 3.3 mi away
- Liberty Hill Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Faith Mission — 3.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Home Church — 1.7 mi away
- Joseph Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- Centerview Church — 3.3 mi away
- Liberty Hill Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Leadvale Church — 3.4 mi away in White Pine, TN