Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newport, TN. It is one of 88 churches in Newport, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of National Baptist Convention
Newport, TNPhone: (336) 724-9305 · Website: http://www.unionbaptistwsnc.org/
Union Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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 Union Baptist Church
- Audio/Video
- Culinary
- Couples
- Greeters/Ushers
- Guardian Angels
- Greek Council
- Men’s Fellowship
- Missionaries
- Music & Fine Arts
- Seniors
- Singles
- Sunday School
Find Union Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Union Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 52.0% (35.8–68.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Depression: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (19.5–33.8%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.7–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Jenkins Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- McGaha Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Middle Creek Church — 1.9 mi away in Cosby, TN
- Fellowship Presbyterian Church — 2.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Good Shepherd Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church — 2.5 mi away in Cosby, TN
- English Creek Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Stokely Chapel — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- English Creek Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Webb's Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Allen's Missionary Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Cosby, TN