Murphy Baptist Church
Murphy Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Norman, AR 71960. It is one of 14 churches in Norman, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Norman, AR, 71960Murphy 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 Murphy Baptist Church
It takes 8.4 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: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Child Poverty: 25.6% (10.7–40.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (14.3–26.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (9.6–17.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (3.0–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Murphy Baptist Church
- Providence Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gaston Community Church — 3.4 mi away in Mount Ida, AR
- Mount Gilend Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Black Springs Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Midway Pentecostal Church — 5.1 mi away in Mount Ida, AR
- Norman Assembly of God Church — 5.2 mi away
- New Life Assembly of God — 5.2 mi away
- Norman United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Norman First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Black Springs Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Norman First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Sulphur Springs Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 7 mi away in Oden, AR