WSBC Text Giving through your phone is a way you can give to the Budget and Minute for Mission: Enter the number 833-631-0344 (save this number in your smart phone contact list as WSBC Text Giving) Send a text message to that number with the dollar amount (minimum $3.00) you are giving (e.g. $25). It automatically goes to the Budget Fund. To give to Minute for Mission, type MFM after ...
September Worship Plan
Join us for Worship this Sunday! In-Person/Outside Service in the Watts Street parking lot at 9 am Service Livestreamed on the WSBC facebook page at 9:15 am This Sunday morning join us for in-person, outside worship. We’re ready to welcome you! Come a little early so we can begin worship at 9 am. We will livestream for those unable to attend or still uncomfortable gathering. Here are ...
50+500 Steps
50+500: Beginning the Journey Every journey begins with one step forward. 50+500 marks the beginning of a longer and larger journey toward Building Beloved Community that WSBC has determined to support. Beginning at Easter and ending 50 days later at Pentecost, we invite every member and friend of our congregation to take at least one step forward for racial equity and justice. Our ...
Holy Week at WSBC
Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain has been our worship theme for this season. During Lent, we’ve been reminded that, again and again, suffering and brokenness find us. We doubt again, lament again, mess up again. Again and again, the story of Jesus on the cross repeats—every time lives are taken unjustly, every time the powerful choose corruption and violence, every time individuals forget how ...
Join/Support Team Watts Street in the CROP Hunger Walk
While there will not be one large community CROP Hunger Walk this year, each organization is encouraged to design their own event to help raise awareness and resources to reduce hunger in Durham and around the world. On Sunday, April 18 at 2 pm, Team Watts Street will walk from the WSBC parking lot to Duke Chapel and back. Check out this video message from our WSBC team captains, Sarah Hanchey ...
Season of Lent at WSBC
AGAIN & AGAIN: A LENTEN REFRAIN In Lent, we’re reminded that, again and again, suffering and brokenness find us. We doubt again, we lament again, we mess up again. Again and again, the story of Jesus on the cross repeats—every time lives are taken unjustly, every time the powerful choose corruption and violence, every time individuals forget how to love. With exacerbation we exclaim, ...
Thank You for Supporting the 2020 WSBC Fall Bazaar!
This year's "virtual" version of the Annual Fall Bazaar was a grand success! Make that SIX GRAND raised to support our Youth Summer Service/Learning Experiences, the Good Shepherd Window restoration, and three community organizations our youth chose to support. THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of our artisans, chefs, bakers, donors, volunteers, and shoppers!!! And to top it all off, we loved ...
It’s time for the 43rd Annual WSBC Fall Bazaar!
Watts Street Baptist Church, located at the corner of Watts Street and Urban Avenue in Durham’s Trinity Park neighborhood, is hosting its 43rd Annual Fall Bazaar on Saturday, November 7th. Beginning on Sunday, October 25, our online store at www.wsbcbazaar.com will go live and customers will be able to order homemade soups, fresh baked cakes and other sweet treats, jams, handcrafted items, ...
Taking Action on Racial Justice/Black Lives Matter
As we remember George Floyd and add his name to a devastating list of black lives lost, our faith compels us to move from complicit silence to action. This evolving page is dedicated to providing a wide variety of specific action steps we can take to work towards racial justice in our community and in the United States. Please feel free to share additional resources with the church ...
Creation Care at Watts Street
During the first four Sundays of May, our worship services will center around the theme of Creation Care. Join us as we celebrate the gift and beauty of the natural world, offer thanks and praise to the Creator, and reflect on our responsibilities as care-givers of God’s creation. On April 22, 2020, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Creation Care Ministry proposed a Proclamation ...
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