First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in McGehee, AR 71654. It is one of 24 churches in McGehee.
McGehee, AR, 71654First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 164 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Arkansas — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Child Poverty: 46.2% (28.6–63.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (21.5–41.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ of McGehee — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of McGehee — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church of McGehee — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Holmes Chapel Life Center — 22.1 mi away in Monticello, AR
- Rose Hill Church — 22.3 mi away in Monticello, AR
- Calvary Presbyterian Church — 24.8 mi away in Greenville, MS