First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 57 West 6th Street in Waldron, AR 72958. It is one of 30 churches in Waldron, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
57 West 6th Street, Waldron, AR, 72958Website: http://www.firstbaptistwaldron.com/
First 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 First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (5.7–16.7%)
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (8.2–40.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (12.7–30.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (7.7–17.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Waldron city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 655 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Waldron United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church In Waldron — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Center Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Church In Action — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Jubilee Church — 0.7 mi away
- Waldron Pentecostal Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Apostolic Lighthouse Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Harmony Freewill Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Boles Freewill Baptist Church — 8.2 mi away
- Parks Baptist Church — 9.7 mi away
- Union Hope Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in Booneville, AR