First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Van Buren, AR 72956. It is one of 81 churches in Van Buren, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Van Buren, AR, 72956Service times
- Sunday 9am · School
Website: http://www.firstvb.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 71,418 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
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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (9.2–24.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.3–15.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Van Buren city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 207 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- Van Buren Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Wood Memorial Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Temple Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- River Valley Revival Center — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center — 0.4 mi away
- North Point Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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