First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Little Rock, AR 72202. It is one of 487 churches in Little Rock, and one of 122 Baptist congregations in the city.
Little Rock, AR, 72202First 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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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 48.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (13.6–32.7%)
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.7–14.2%)
- Depression: 23.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (16.1–38.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Little Rock city is served by 267 churches — about one congregation for every 713 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Moody Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Miles Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Coleman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- The House of Prayer Pentecostal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Wards Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Miracles of Faith Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bailey Chapel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in North Little Rock, AR
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in North Little Rock, AR
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