East Side Baptist Church
East Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Paragould, AR 72450. It is one of 102 churches in Paragould, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
Paragould, AR, 72450Website: http://www.connect2eastside.com/
East Side 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 East Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (16.0–34.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Child Poverty: 29.3% (13.7–45.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (6.5–21.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.9–14.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paragould city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near East Side Baptist Church
- Greater Vision Church — 0 mi away
- Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ridge City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.4 mi away
- The Crossing Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Holiness Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Lake Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Revival Center Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Crossing Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lake Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Third Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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