First Baptist of Okolana

First Baptist of Okolana is a church at 735 Layne St in Okolona, AR 71962. It is one of 3 churches in Okolona.

735 Layne St, Okolona, AR, 71962

Phone: +18702743555 · Website: http://www.faithstreet.com/church/first-baptist-church-okolona-ms

First Baptist of Okolana 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 Baptist of Okolana

It takes 6.8 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.3% (24.3–56.3%)
  • Obesity: 42.5%
  • Social Isolation: 33.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.3% (16.4–32.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 21.8%
  • Diabetes: 16.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
  • Depression: 25.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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