First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Wilton, AR 71865.

Wilton, AR, 71865

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

It takes 5.7 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 42.0%
  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.7%
  • Diabetes: 16.7%
  • Unemployment: 9.9% (3.3–16.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
  • Child Poverty: 26.0% (13.7–38.4%)
  • Depression: 24.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.2% (9.8–22.5%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

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

Wilton city is served by 1 churches — about one congregation for every 1,934 residents.

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