First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawton, OK 73505. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Free Will Baptist believe the Bible teaches three ordinances for the church to practice: Baptism in water by immersion, the Lord’s Supper, to be perpetuated until He returns, and the Washing of the Saints’ feet, an ordinance teaching humility.
Lawton, OK, 73505Website: http://www.ffwbclawtonok.org/
First Free Will Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,598 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 71,417 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 30.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (17.3–39.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (10.9–25.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (3.1–17.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Iglesia El Aposento Alto Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Lawton Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Cameron Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Word Alive Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cameron Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hunting Horse United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Church Lawton — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cameron Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Church — 1.3 mi away