First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1202 Lawrence Street in Port Townsend, WA 98368. It is one of 16 churches in Port Townsend, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church of Port Townsend is a relaxed, homey, come-as-you-are, blended, multi-generational, Christ-centered church dedicated to "Loving God and Loving Port Townsend."
Serving since 1889
1202 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA, 98368Phone: (360) 385-2752 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistpt.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 626 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Washington — 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 8.6% (2.6–14.7%)
- Depression: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Port Townsend city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 338 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St. Mary Star of the Sea — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Port Townsend Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Port Townsend Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Port Townsend Friends Meeting — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- San Juan Baptist — 1.6 mi away
- Oak Bay Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Port Hadlock, WA
- Bible Baptist Church — 9.9 mi away in Oak Harbor, WA
- Redeeming Grace Church — 12.9 mi away in Oak Harbor, WA
- South Whidbey Baptist Church — 14.6 mi away in Langley, WA
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