First Southern Church

First Southern Church is a Baptist church at 138 East Kansas Avenue in Arkansas City, KS 67005. It is one of 41 churches in Arkansas City, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.

138 East Kansas Avenue, Arkansas City, KS, 67005

Shares a ministry location with FirstSouthern Baptist Church.

First Southern Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 71,417 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 Southern 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 about 1 in 5 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: 41.3%
  • Social Isolation: 32.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Diabetes: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Arkansas City city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 547 residents.

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