First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawton, OK 73501. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73501First 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 Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 59.9% (41.5–78.3%)
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (22.1–43.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (13.2–29.0%)
- Unemployment: 14.3% (3.4–25.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrew Church — 0.1 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.2 mi away
- Methodist Church First United — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace and Truth Kingdom Harvest — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church — 0.4 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away