Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 500 S Cooper Ave, Jonesboro, LA, 71251-3435.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Jonesboro, LA is a Baptist church. It is one of 2 Baptist congregations in Jonesboro.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 S Cooper Ave in Jonesboro, LA 71251-3435. It is one of 36 churches in Jonesboro, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

500 S Cooper Ave, Jonesboro, LA, 71251-3435

Phone: +13182594467 · Website: https://fbcjonesboro.net/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 2.7 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 48.0%
Poverty Rate: 33.0% (21.8–44.2%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
Food Insecurity: 30.6%
Diabetes: 20.1%
Social Isolation: 36.1%
Child Poverty: 33.5% (19.0–48.1%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
Depression: 26.4%
Transportation Barriers: 14.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Jonesboro United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Jonesboro Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
The Pentecostals of Jonesboro — 0.3 mi away
Calvary Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
Jonesboro Louisiana Sda Church — 0.4 mi away
Sweet Home Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
Jonesboro church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
Brown Grove Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
Mt Earie Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Jonesboro United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Hodge Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Hodge, LA
McDonald Memorial Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
Fellowship Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Quitman, LA
Walnut Ridge Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Quitman, LA

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