West Helena Baptist Church
West Helena Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Helena-West Helena, AR 72390. It is one of 36 churches in Helena-West Helena, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Helena-West Helena, AR, 72390West Helena 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 West Helena Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 54.2%
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (27.1–46.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 18.4% (5.7–31.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Helena-West Helena city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 67 residents.
Churches near West Helena Baptist Church
- West Helena United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Power House Cogic — 0.2 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- West Helena Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Church — 0.4 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Faith Outreach Church — 0.7 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Helena-West Helena 2nd Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Helena-West Helena 2nd Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away in West Helena, AR
- King Solomon M.B. Church — 1.9 mi away in Helena, AR
- West Acres Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in West Helena, AR
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