Okolona Baptist Church
Okolona Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Okolona, AR 71962. It is one of 3 churches in Okolona.
Okolona, AR, 71962Okolona 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 Okolona Baptist Church
It takes 7.0 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: 40.4% (24.3–56.5%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (16.1–31.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Okolona Baptist Church
- West Gum Springs Church Of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist of Okolana — 0.7 mi away
- Maryetta Church — 3.9 mi away
- Smyrna United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Saint Clair Church — 4.8 mi away
- Pine Grove Church — 5 mi away in Delight, AR
- Holly Grove Church — 5.2 mi away
- Center Grove United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Gurdon, AR
- New Home Church — 6 mi away in Gurdon, AR
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Delight, AR
- South Fork Baptist Church — 8.1 mi away in Gurdon, AR
- Hollywood Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in Arkadelphia, AR
- Center Point Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away in Gurdon, AR