Getchell Street United Baptist Church
Getchell Street United Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3 Getchell Street in Waterville, ME 04901. It is one of 25 churches in Waterville, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
It is our primary focus to be a help to those in need.
For over half a century, GSBC has helped our community in a number of different ways. From our founding, we have been an active part of Waterville’s culture.
3 Getchell Street, Waterville, ME, 04901Phone: +1-207-872-6047 · Website: http://getchellstreetbaptistchurch.org/
Getchell Street United 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.
Ministries at Getchell Street United Baptist Church
- Operation Christmas Child
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The community around Getchell Street United Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (20.3–38.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (10.2–43.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.2–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterville city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,315 residents.
Churches near Getchell Street United Baptist Church
- Waterville UCC — 0.1 mi away
- Set Free Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Archangels Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blessed Hope Advent Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- Universalist Unitarian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Kennebec Valley Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Fairfield — 2.9 mi away in Fairfield, ME
- Winslow Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Winslow, ME
- North Vassalboro Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Vassalboro, ME