First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gurdon, AR 71743. It is one of 24 churches in Gurdon, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.

Gurdon, AR, 71743

First 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 — 71,418 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 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.

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