First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 201 W Jackson St in Harrisburg, AR 72432-1809. It is one of 27 churches in Harrisburg, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
At First Baptist Church of Harrisburg, our mission is to glorify God by living out the teachings of Jesus Christ through love, service, and worship.
201 W Jackson St, Harrisburg, AR, 72432-1809Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 6pm · Office Hours -
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am · Office Hours -
Phone: +18705785901 · Website: https://fbcharrisburg.org/
First 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 First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 45.0% (29.2–60.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4%
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (7.1–16.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.2–11.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hillside United Pentecostal — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- Drover Cowboy Church — 0.9 mi away
- Missionary Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Church — 2.1 mi away
- Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Holly Springs Church — 3 mi away
- Bolivar Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Drover Cowboy Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greenfield Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Lebanon Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
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