Bluff Avenue Baptist Church
Bluff Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Bluff Avenue in Fort Smith, AR 72901. It is one of 214 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 45 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bluff Avenue, Fort Smith, AR, 72901Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Bautista Gozo de Mi Alma.
Bluff Avenue 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 Bluff Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 37.2%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (14.9–34.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (0.7–16.2%)
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.7–19.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fort Smith city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 625 residents.
Churches near Bluff Avenue Baptist Church
- Iglesia Bautista Gozo de Mi Alma — 0 mi away
- Park Hill Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- The Refuge Ministries without walls — 0.4 mi away
- Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ the King Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Nazarene Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.6 mi away
- Goddard United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia La Casa Del Pan — 0.8 mi away
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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