South Mo Baptist Assembly
South Mo Baptist Assembly is a Baptist church at 1404 Highway 34 in Van Buren, MO 63965. It is one of 10 churches in Van Buren, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
South Missouri Baptist Assembly (SMBA) in Van Buren, MO, is nestled in the Ozark Foothills, overlooking the Current River, and bordering Mark Twain National Forest.
1404 Highway 34, Van Buren, MO, 63965Phone: (573) 323-4286 · Website: http://www.smbacamp.org
South Mo Baptist Assembly is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,662 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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 South Mo Baptist Assembly
It takes 8.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Child Poverty: 38.5% (19.9–57.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (15.2–30.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 31.2%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near South Mo Baptist Assembly
- Van Buren First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Eastwood Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 1 mi away
- South Van Buren General Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- House's Creek Church — 3 mi away
- Bible Church — 3.5 mi away
- Liberty Church — 4.5 mi away
- Dry Valley Church — 5.8 mi away
- Yount Church — 7.5 mi away
- Community Church — 7.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Van Buren First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- South Van Buren General Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 15.4 mi away in Ellsinore, MO
- First Baptist Church — 16.9 mi away in Ellington, MO
- Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 19.9 mi away in Doniphan, MO
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