South Fort Smith Freewill Baptist Church
South Fort Smith Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Smith, AR 72901. It is one of 217 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fort Smith, AR, 72901South Fort Smith Freewill 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 South Fort Smith Freewill Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 13.9% (6.0–21.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (15.6–31.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.9–16.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 South Fort Smith Freewill Baptist Church
- Southside Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vineyard Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Southside Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Streams in the Desert Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Summit Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fort Smith Primitive — 1 mi away
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