Union Baptist Church
Union 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, 37821Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Union 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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Latest from Union Baptist Church Knoxville's YouTube channel: 8.2.26: Faith That Pleases God (all videos).
The community around Union Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Child Poverty: 38.5% (22.4–54.6%)
- Depression: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (14.9–29.4%)
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.4–18.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Jenkins Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- McGaha Chapel — 1.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Fellowship Presbyterian Church — 1.7 mi away
- Good Shepherd Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church — 2 mi away in Cosby, TN
- Cosby Church of God — 2 mi away in Cosby, TN
- Providence Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Middle Creek Church — 2.2 mi away in Cosby, TN
- English Creek Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Providence Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- English Creek Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Webb's Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Allen's Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Cosby, TN
- Trinity Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Cosby, TN