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At WSBC we are guided by love to take action in our world. Our engagement with the community beyond our walls grows out of specific promises we make in the church covenant: to promote peace and justice wherever we touch other lives, and to feed, house, and befriend the needy.

“Sounding the Call…”

Watts Street has a number of Mission Groups that follow the interests of its members as they seek to fulfill God’s calling to care for and connect with others.  Mission Groups are formed and disbanded in response to changing needs and spiritual callings. Periodically, a person or two will “sound a call” during worship for a new Mission Group, or re-­sound a call to invite others to join an existing Mission Group.  If the work sounds like  “good news” and seems impossible to accomplish without God’s help, that is a good sign that the Spirit is leading us to undertake this mission!

Our Mission Groups usually align with one of the following categories for community connections:

Food & Shelter

Care & Compassion

Social Justice

Creation Care

International

Missions Giving

The budget for the church’s missions reflects the work of our own mission groups as well as local, national, and international mission partners.

Watts Street supports and is affiliated with the following mission groups:

MISSION AFFILIATIONS
Alliance of Baptists
American Baptist Churches USA
Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists
Baptist House of Studies – Duke Divinity School
Baptist Joint Committee
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Baptists Today
Baptist Women in Ministry
Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship – National
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina
Kostroma-Evangelical Baptist Church
Shaw University Divinity School
Wake Forest School of Divinity
Women’s Missionary Union

In addition, we work in partnership with the following groups:

MISSION PARTNERS
Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina
Campus Ministry at North Carolina Central University
Capital Restorative Justice Project
Durham CAN
Durham Congregations in Action
Durham Crisis Response Center
Durham Economic Resource Center
End Poverty Durham
Genesis Home
Habitat for Humanity of Durham
Healthy Families Durham
Housing for New Hope
Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel
Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network
Meals on Wheels
NC Baptist Men
North Carolina Council of Churches
One World Market
Partners for Youth Opportunity
REAL Durham
Rebound NC
Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
Rutba House
Scout Troop #440
Senior PharmAssist
Threshold Clubhouse
Urban Ministries of Durham

Sundays at Watts Street

Sunday School 9:45 am
Worship Service 11:00 am

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  • Bulletin/Weekly -- March 26, 2023
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  • Compassion In Action -- February 2021
  • Compassion In Action -- December 2020
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