First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 46 Court Street in Houlton, ME 04730. It is one of 18 churches in Houlton, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission We covenant with God to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, seeking always to grow in faith together and to serve God’s Kingdom throughout the world with joy, passion and prayer.
We are a friendly family of believers in Jesus Christ. We preach the Gospel and believe God's Word, the Bible, is as reliable and relevant today as it has always been. Our worship is traditional in style and sincere in character. You'll find a warm welcome here!
46 Court Street, Houlton, ME, 04730Service times
- Sunday 10am
Website: https://fbchoulton.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 335 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maine — 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 First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 16.1% (6.3–26.0%)
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (11.9–32.6%)
- Depression: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Congregational Church of Houlton - UCC — 0.1 mi away
- Houlton United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Society — 0.2 mi away
- Houlton Wesleyan Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Missionary Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Houlton United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiretown Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Mary's Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Gathering — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiretown Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Military Street Baptist Church - Church on the Hill — 1.2 mi away
- Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- New Limerick Freewill Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Hodgdon United Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Hodgdon, ME