Central Baptist Church

Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newport, RI 02840. It is one of 38 churches in Newport, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

Newport, RI, 02840

Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 125 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Rhode Island — 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 Central Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 10.2% (4.2–16.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 30.7%
  • Depression: 23.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Newport city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,045 residents.

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