Walnut Street Baptist Church
Walnut Street 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 11am
- Sunday 9:30am · Worship
Walnut Street 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.
Ministries at Walnut Street Baptist Church
- Kids Ministry
- Student Ministry
- College Ministry
- Discipleship Groups
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The community around Walnut Street 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 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: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (28.1–50.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Child Poverty: 38.5% (21.2–55.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (9.9–24.8%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (3.7–17.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Jonesboro city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 815 residents.
Churches near Walnut Street Baptist Church
- Huntington Avenue Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jonesboro Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Downtown Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Twelve 5 Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Jonesboro Arkansas — 0.6 mi away
- United Fellowship of Jonesboro Church — 0.6 mi away
- Breaking Bonds Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jonesboro Freewill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redeemer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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