First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 201 Lewis Street in Fouke, AR 71837. It is one of 24 churches in Fouke, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
201 Lewis Street, Fouke, AR, 71837First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Mission Texarkana
- Food Service
- Spiritual Enrichment
- Vocational Training
- Performance Improvement
- Miscellaneous Assistance
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 18.4%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (3.4–9.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sanctuary of Hope Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fouke - Community Transformation Church — 0.8 mi away
- Antioch Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fairland Holiness Church — 1.2 mi away
- River of Life Worship Center — 1.9 mi away
- Fairland Holiness Church — 2.4 mi away
- Fairland Church — 3 mi away
- Rocky Mound Church — 3.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pisgah Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Sylverino Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Legacy Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Texarkana, AR
- Genoa Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Texarkana, AR
- Circle J Cowboy Church Texarkana, AR — 9.1 mi away in Texarkana, AR