Higher Calling Baptist Church
Higher Calling Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4036 Ward Blvd in Wilson, NC 27893-3270. It is one of 143 churches in Wilson, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are not just building a congregation — we are building disciples who carry the gospel into Wilson, into their workplaces, into their families, and to the ends of the earth.
Higher Calling Baptist Church is a Black Baptist church in Wilson, North Carolina — led by Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. J.M. Wooten and Pastor Patricia Wooten, anchored in Scripture, and rooted in disciple-making for Wilson County and Eastern North Carolina.
4036 Ward Blvd, Wilson, NC, 27893-3270Service times
- Wednesday 6pm
Phone: +12522930505 · Website: https://hcbcwilsonnc.com/
Higher Calling Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Higher Calling Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (16.5–45.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (10.3–24.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (0.1–16.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Higher Calling Baptist Church
- Kingdom Revelation Church Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Harmony Free Will Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Anointed Word Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- St. Therese Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- The Church at Kingdom — 0.7 mi away in Greenville, NC
- LRCC — 0.7 mi away
- Wilson Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Wilson Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Jackson Chapel Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wilson Chapel Free Will Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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