First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gurdon, AR 71743. It is one of 9 churches in Gurdon, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gurdon, AR, 71743First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Canaan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beech Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- 1st Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gurdon First Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary United Pentecostal Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Caney Church — 1.4 mi away
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- New Ronok Church — 1.5 mi away