First Freewill Baptist Church
First Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mena, AR 71953. It is one of 64 churches in Mena, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mena, AR, 71953First 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, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.6–20.1%)
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Food Insecurity: 17.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (7.5–27.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.9–18.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mena city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 94 residents.
Churches near First Freewill Baptist Church
- Dallas Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harmony Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mena Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Believers Baptist Church Mena Ar — 0.2 mi away
- Mena Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Mission Pentecostal Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Covenant of Life Church — 0.7 mi away
- Free Jesus Name Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cornerstone Pentecostal Church Mena — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dallas Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harmony Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Believers Baptist Church Mena Ar — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away