First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 30am2350 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, AR 71901. It is one of 133 churches in Hot Springs, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church had a rocky start with numerous devastating fires that swept through the area up until the early 1900's. But one thing has remained unchanging for nearly 200 years; FBC Hot Springs has been part of the fabric and rich history of Hot Springs, AR and continues its mission to invite everyone, invest in people, and impact eternity.
30am2350 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, AR, 71901Service times
- Sunday, Wednesday 6pm · Celebration Choir
- Sunday, Wednesday 10am · Celebration Choir
Phone: (501) 418-2540 · Website: http://www.firsthotsprings.com/
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 — 71,417 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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Latest from First Baptist Hot Springs on Vimeo: The Unholy Trinity of Revelation | Pastor John McCallum (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (16.6–40.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.0–21.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hot Springs city is served by 49 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Oaklawn Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oaklawn United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Anglican Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Marys Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of The Open Door — 0.6 mi away
- Hot Springs Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Oaklawn Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Winan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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