Widener Baptist Church
Widener Baptist Church is a church at 208 Washington St in Widener, AR 72394. It is one of 10 churches in Widener.
208 Washington St, Widener, AR, 72394Phone: +18706361211 · Website: http://www.riversidebaptist.com
Widener 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 Widener Baptist Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Child Poverty: 34.8% (17.2–52.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (17.1–32.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.5–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Widener Baptist Church
- Widener Grove MB Church — 0.2 mi away
- White Rock Church — 1.4 mi away
- Cornerstone MB Church — 2.2 mi away in Madison, AR
- Saint John Church — 2.6 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Madison, AR
- Riverside Church — 3 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 3.2 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Bethlehem Church — 3.7 mi away
- New Hebron Church — 4 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Church of Christ — 4.4 mi away in Forrest City, AR
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beth Salem Baptist — 5.5 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Landmark Church — 5.7 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Bethel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- First Baptist Church of Forrest City — 5.9 mi away in Forrest City, AR
- Rusty Nails Cowboy Church — 6.2 mi away in Forrest City, AR