Murphys Corner Baptist Church
Murphys Corner Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newport, AR 72112. It is one of 47 churches in Newport, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newport, AR, 72112Murphys Corner 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 Murphys Corner Baptist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.0% (35.3–62.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Food Insecurity: 27.2%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (18.0–33.6%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.5–21.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.8–19.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Murphys Corner Baptist Church
- Remmel Church — 3.3 mi away
- John 3:17 Ministry — 3.3 mi away
- Cherokee Street Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away
- Saint Lukes Church — 3.8 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 3.8 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 4.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 4.2 mi away
- Newport PCG — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Amagon Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Amagon, AR
- Village Creek Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Diaz, AR