Thew New HBC Worship Center (former Hillside Baptist Church)
Thew New HBC Worship Center (former Hillside Baptist Church) is a Baptist church at 229 Maple Avenue in Newport, RI 02840. It is one of 38 churches in Newport, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
229 Maple Avenue, Newport, RI, 02840Thew New HBC Worship Center (former Hillside 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 Thew New HBC Worship Center (former Hillside Baptist Church)
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Child Poverty: 36.9% (22.8–51.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.3–15.6%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.7–29.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,045 residents.
Churches near Thew New HBC Worship Center (former Hillside Baptist Church)
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
- Chapel of Hope — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peters Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jesus Savior Church — 1 mi away
- Oceanpointe Christian Church — 1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- Cluny USA and Canada — 1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- St Lucy's Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Middletown, RI
- United Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Newport Community Church — 1.9 mi away
- Middletown Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Middletown, RI
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