First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 111 Park Avenue in Worcester, MA 01609. It is one of 202 churches in Worcester, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
111 Park Avenue, Worcester, MA, 01609Shares a ministry location with Hope Restoration Ministry and Park Congregational Church.
First 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 First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 51.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.4–11.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Worcester city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 2,875 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Hope Restoration Ministry — 0 mi away
- Park Congregational Church — 0 mi away
- Armenian Church of Our Saviour — 0.3 mi away
- Second Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.4 mi away
- 우스터장로교회/Korean Presbyterian Church of Worcester — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Nouvelle Arche SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Park Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Adams Square Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Worcester Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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