New Prospect Baptist Church

New Prospect Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 321 South Houston Place in Russellville, AR 72801. It is one of 120 churches in Russellville, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.

321 South Houston Place, Russellville, AR, 72801

New Prospect 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 New Prospect Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 43.8%
  • Social Isolation: 33.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.9–32.2%)
  • Child Poverty: 27.1% (8.4–46.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Russellville city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 433 residents.

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