Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jonesboro, AR 72401. It is one of 180 churches in Jonesboro, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jonesboro, AR, 72401Service times
- Sunday 8am · - &
- Sunday 9:30am · - &
- Sunday 11am · - &
- Wednesday 6:15pm
Central 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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Latest from Central Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Everyday Joy - We Press On - Dr. Blake Ligon (all videos).
The community around Central Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 45.1%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (28.4–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.0% (13.6–30.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (5.4–16.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jonesboro city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 815 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Fellowship of Jonesboro Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Jonesboro Arkansas — 0.1 mi away
- Breaking Bonds Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Changers Empowerment Center — 0.3 mi away
- Compass Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Twelve 5 Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Timothy's Anglican Church — 0.7 mi away
- Walnut Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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