First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 20 East Dickson Street in Fayetteville, AR 72701. It is one of 146 churches in Fayetteville, and one of 32 Baptist congregations in the city.

As an autonomous local church, we join with other churches in the Washington-Madison Baptist Association, the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and the Southern Baptist Convention to do together what no one church can do alone.

20 East Dickson Street, Fayetteville, AR, 72701

Phone: (479) 442-2387 · Website: https://fbcfayetteville.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.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 39.6% (27.7–51.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Depression: 29.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.9% (15.6–26.9%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

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

Fayetteville city is served by 81 churches — about one congregation for every 1,038 residents.

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