Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 256 Main Street in Southbridge Town, MA 01550. It is one of 8 churches in Southbridge Town, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
256 Main Street, Southbridge Town, MA, 01550Phone: (508) 764-6365
Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 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.
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The community around Central 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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.
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (13.7–31.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.6–13.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Southbridge Town city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,359 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- Iglesia Sanando Al Herido — 0.1 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away in Sturbridge, MA
- Elm Street Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away in Southrbidge, MA
- Iglesia Pentecostal Alpha Iota Omega — 0.2 mi away
- St. Hedwig's Church — 0.2 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- House of Destiny — 0.2 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away in Southbridge, MA
- Southbridge Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Sturbridge Federated Church — 3.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away
- Tri-State Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Thompson, CT
- Charlton Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Charlton, MA
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