First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Checotah, OK 74426. It is one of 16 churches in Checotah, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Checotah, OK, 74426First Free Will Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,607 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 Free Will Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. 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: 45.4%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (13.7–50.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (13.9–28.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.0–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Checotah city is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,059 residents.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Faith Temple — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Federated Christian Presby Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church East Side — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church - Checotah — 0.4 mi away
- West Side Freewill Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.4 mi away
- Deep Fork Church — 4.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sycamores Community Church@Belle Starr Ranch — 8.5 mi away
- North Fork Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away in Eufaula, OK
- Warner First Baptist Church — 12.1 mi away in Warner, OK
- Keefeton Trinity Southern Baptist Church — 13.1 mi away in Muskogee, OK