Facilities Use

First Baptist Church of Rochester has a fully functional and accessible building, including a 300 seat Sanctuary, a Chapel with Baptistery (seating up to 80), a fellowship hall/gymnasium (capacity, 223 persons), and a number of classrooms and meeting spaces.

The building is widely used by community service and arts groups, including two Alcoholics Anonymous groups (noon each weekday and Friday evenings), an Al-Anon group (Monday evenings), and Neutral Ground, a support organization for persons experiencing life changes, particularly divorce and grief. (Meets Thursday evenings.)

On Tuesdays the halls are filled with the lovely sounds produced by the American Recorder Society. Other craft and art groups that meet in the facility regularly are The Weavers Guild, The Genesee Valley Garden Club, The Genesee Valley Quilt Club, and a scrapbooking group.

We house the offices of Healthcore Counseling and Consulting, run by pastoral counselors Donald F. Schwab, D. Min., Ph. D. and Judith M. Hogan, MS, CASAC. Phone: (585) 271-6190, Email: healthcore@frontiernet.net.

In September, 2005, the First Baptist congregation began sharing the building with the Slavic Bible Baptist Church. Russian language worship is conducted in our Sanctuary on Sunday afternoons. The Slavic Bible Baptist Church hosts study groups and choir practice on Saturday evenings, with evening youth functions on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The Slavic Bible Baptist Church is led by Pastor Viktor Didovets, (585) 216-2213.

User Groups

Those with web sites are listed in bold.

To view the scheduled events for user groups, click on our Master Calendar and, using the drop-down menu in the top right-hand column, highlight User Groups.

AA-Daily, Daily Noon
AA, Friday Home
Al-Anon-ACA, Monday Evenings
Boy Scout Troup 77, Wednesday Evenings
Brownies Troup 719, Every Other Wednesday Afternoon.
Country Dancers of Rochester
Cub Scouts
Different Point of View
Food Addicts in Recovery
Food Addicts AWOL
Garden Club, First Wednesday
Health Core Counseling
Ikebana International
Neutral Ground, Thursday Evenings
Quad A
Reading Development
Rochester Area Federation of Round & Square Dance Clubs
Scrapbooking
Slavic Bible Baptist Church
Sober Women
Weavers