First Baptist Church of Arkansas City
First Baptist Church of Arkansas City is a Baptist church in Arkansas City, AR 71630. It is one of 7 churches in Arkansas City, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Arkansas City, AR, 71630First Baptist Church of Arkansas City is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,140 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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 of Arkansas City
It takes 7.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 53.3% (36.2–70.5%)
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Food Insecurity: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (24.6–44.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.2–19.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Arkansas City
- Saint John Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Outreach Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Arkansas City Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away in Tillar, AR
- Eutaw Church — 4.9 mi away
- Bogue Church — 5.2 mi away in McGehee, AR
- Rising Sun Church — 6.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Arkansas City Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South McGehee Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in McGehee, AR
- Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church — 10.7 mi away in McGehee, AR
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