First Baptist Church of Osceola
First Baptist Church of Osceola is a Baptist church in Osceola, AR 72370. It is one of 35 churches in Osceola, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Osceola, AR, 72370Service times
Tuesday, October 28th at 5:30pm; Tuesday at 5pmThe Osceola Main Street Board of Directors meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 5 pm (as listed)
Shares a ministry location with First United Methodist Church.
First Baptist Church of Osceola 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 Church of Osceola
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Child Poverty: 50.4% (32.6–68.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.8%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (25.2–46.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 19.4% (10.7–28.2%)
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (9.8–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Osceola city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 494 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Osceola
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mt Pleasant Christian Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Church of God and Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church First Christian — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Osceola First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Luxora — 4.4 mi away in Luxora, AR
- First Baptist Church of Keiser — 7.5 mi away in Keiser, AR