First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 501 North Main Street in Fordyce, AR 71742. It is one of 26 churches in Fordyce, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
We here at Fordyce First Baptist Church are committed to sharing with everyone the "Good News" of Jesus Christ and to be and make committed disciples.
Fordyce First Baptist Church is a body of believers in Jesus Christ that are committed to sharing the Gospel and growing in our commitment to Him.
501 North Main Street, Fordyce, AR, 71742Phone: (870) 352-2938 · Website: https://greenville-first-baptist-church.hub.biz
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
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (5.7–17.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fordyce city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 726 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Good Shepherd Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Enon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Surrender Church — 0.7 mi away
- Beech Grove Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beech Grove Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in White Hall, AR
- First Baptist Church — 7.7 mi away in Kingsland, AR
- Mount Gillard Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Bearden, AR