First Freewill Baptist Church
First Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lamar, AR 72830. It is one of 13 churches in Lamar, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lamar, AR, 72830First Freewill 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 Freewill Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Child Poverty: 37.0% (20.9–53.2%)
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (16.2–32.7%)
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Freewill Baptist Church
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Hedgeway Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakland Church — 0.8 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Christian Life Center — 1.3 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Church — 1.3 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Second Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Hedgeway Church — 1.9 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Holy Redeemer Catholic Church — 2 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Life Bridge Church — 2 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Refuge Church — 2.1 mi away in Clarksville, AR
More Baptist churches nearby
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- First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Cabin Creek Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Clarksville, AR
- Cherry Street Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Clarksville, AR