First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 211 S Market St in Benton, AR 72015-4303. It is one of 87 churches in Benton, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
FBC desires to engage lostness, equip believers, and empower partners, resulting in the lost becoming saved, disciples being made and multiplied in Central Arkansas and around the world, and lives and communities being transformed by the power of the Gospel.
211 S Market St, Benton, AR, 72015-4303Service times
- Tuesday, Thursday 9am
Phone: (501) 778-2271 · Website: https://www.firstbenton.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 71,417 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Local Missions
- Global Missions
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.7–22.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.5–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Upperroom Student Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- City Church Salt County — 0.1 mi away
- Saline Independent Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ River Street — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church At Benton, AR — 0.5 mi away
- GPC Benton — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Side Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bogg Springs Baptist Camp — 0.6 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away