Big Fork Baptist Church
Big Fork Baptist Church is a church at 5969 Highway 8 E in Mena, AR 71953-8800. It is one of 64 churches in Mena.
5969 Highway 8 E, Mena, AR, 71953-8800Phone: +14794373200 · Website: http://lower-big-fork-baptist-church.placestars.com
Big Fork 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 Big Fork Baptist Church
It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.9–12.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Big Fork Baptist Church
- Pleasant Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
- Lower Big Fork Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Hillside Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Norman, AR
- Sulphur Springs Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Norman, AR
- Midway Freewill Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Ouachita Baptist Assembly — 6.9 mi away
- Cherry Hill Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
- Cherry Hill United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away
- Little Hope Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Oden, AR
- Board Camp Assembly of God Church — 7.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lower Big Fork Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Hillside Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Norman, AR
- Sulphur Springs Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Norman, AR
- Midway Freewill Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Cherry Hill Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away