First Church of the Nazarene

First Church of the Nazarene is a church in Ashdown, AR 71822. It is one of 46 churches in Ashdown.

Ashdown, AR, 71822

First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 63 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Arkansas — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around First Church of the Nazarene

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

  • Obesity: 42.6%
  • Child Poverty: 38.2% (26.1–50.4%)
  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Diabetes: 16.9%
  • Unemployment: 9.5% (2.9–16.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
  • Depression: 24.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.3% (14.1–28.4%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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