Southside Nazarene Church
Southside Nazarene Church is a Nazarene church in Fort Smith, AR 72901. It is one of 214 churches in Fort Smith.
Fort Smith, AR, 72901Southside Nazarene Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 65 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Arkansas — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Southside Nazarene Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (16.4–37.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (1.4–16.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.7–20.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
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 Southside Nazarene Church
- Southside Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Evangel Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelical Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia La Casa Del Pan — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Park Hill Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Goddard United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bluff Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Gozo de Mi Alma — 0.6 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- First Church of the Nazarene — 2.9 mi away
- Muldrow Nazarene Church — 10.3 mi away in Muldrow, OK
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