First Union Baptist Church
First Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chidester, AR 71726. It is one of 18 churches in Chidester.
Chidester, AR, 71726First Union Baptist Church 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.2–31.0%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Child Poverty: 29.8% (11.6–47.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.2–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Union Baptist Church
- Shiloh Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Willie Church — 1.3 mi away
- Westside United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Camden, AR
- Bell Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Freedom Church — 3.1 mi away in Camden, AR
- Shiloh Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Camden, AR
- Church of Christ — 4 mi away in Camden, AR
- Church Of Christ — 4.1 mi away in Camden, AR
- Saint Mark United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Camden, AR
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Camden, AR
- Hillside Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Camden, AR
- Unity Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Camden, AR
- Second Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Camden, AR
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Camden, AR
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