St. John the Baptist Church
St. John the Baptist Church is a church in New Bedford, MA 02740. It is one of 75 churches in New Bedford.
New Bedford, MA, 02740Website: http://www.stjohnthebaptistwestport.org
St. John the Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 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 St. John the Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 26.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (10.2–23.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New Bedford city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 10,062 residents.
Churches near St. John the Baptist Church
- Universal Church — 0.2 mi away
- International Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of the Assumption Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spanish Church of God 42 S. Sixth St. New Bedford MA — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.3 mi away
- Interchurch Council — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Portuguese Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple of Restoration — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- North Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 2.2 mi away in Fairhaven, MA
- First Church of Hixville Baptist — 6.6 mi away in North Dartmouth, MA
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