First Church of the Nazarene
First Church of the Nazarene is a church in Lawton, OK 73507. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton.
Lawton, OK, 73507First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 159 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Oklahoma — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Church of the Nazarene
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 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: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (12.0–28.0%)
- Unemployment: 12.1% (4.6–19.6%)
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (16.4–32.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Church of the Nazarene
- New Testament Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Free Gospel Church-Our Lord — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrews Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Andrew Church — 0.5 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Lawton Heights Church-Nazarene — 1.5 mi away
- Heritage Oaks Church of the Nazarene — 24.1 mi away in Duncan, OK