Lao Liberty Baptist Church
Lao Liberty Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3301 Walnut St in Fort Smith, AR 72904-2445. It is one of 187 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 43 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lao Baptist Church was established early 1980s, for the Laotian refugee in their new homeland and country, America.
3301 Walnut St, Fort Smith, AR, 72904-2445Phone: (479) 783-8351
Lao Liberty 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 — 71,352 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 Lao Liberty Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.6% (14.5–28.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (6.7–19.3%)
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Child Poverty: 35.3% (19.0–51.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (19.4–37.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Depression: 24.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lao Liberty Baptist Church
- Walnut Street Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- North Side Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Homestead Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God of the Union Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- Midland Heights United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Hispana A/D Fort Smith — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
- Word of Faith Tabernacle — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Walnut Street Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- North Side Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Homestead Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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