First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ponca City, OK 74601. It is one of 71 churches in Ponca City, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.

Ponca City, OK, 74601

First 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 about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 45.6%
  • Social Isolation: 33.4%
  • Child Poverty: 30.5% (18.9–42.2%)
  • Depression: 27.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (12.0–21.8%)
  • Diabetes: 15.4%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (2.4–13.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Ponca City city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 613 residents.

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