First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 298 Blackstone Street in Woonsocket, RI 02895. It is one of 39 churches in Woonsocket, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
298 Blackstone Street, Woonsocket, RI, 02895Phone: (401) 762-0036 · Website: https://www.fbcwoonsocket.org/
Shares a ministry location with Grace Christian Fellowship.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 124 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Rhode Island — 71,418 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 26.8%
- Child Poverty: 39.7% (20.9–58.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.1–31.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.2–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Woonsocket city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 2,531 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Grace Christian Fellowship — 0 mi away
- St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Church Complex — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Mi Redentor Vive — 0.2 mi away
- Monte Calvario Assemblies of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace International Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Solid Rock Bible Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Blackstone, MA
- Blackstone Valley Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Cumberland, RI
- First Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away
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