Monroe Baptist Church
Monroe Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 14763 Short St in Poteau, OK 74953. It is one of 35 churches in Poteau, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
14763 Short St, Poteau, OK, 74953Phone: +19186582574 · Website: https://www.fbcmonroeok.org/
Monroe 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.
Find Monroe Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Monroe Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Child Poverty: 26.1% (17.2–35.0%)
- Depression: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (14.2–23.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Monroe Baptist Church
- Sugarloaf Creek Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Cedarville Church — 3 mi away
- Springhill Church — 3.3 mi away in Howe, OK
- Springhill Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Howe, OK
- West Harmony Church — 5.5 mi away
- Community Church — 5.8 mi away in Howe, OK
- Faith Church — 6.8 mi away in Howe, OK
- Double Branch Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
- New Beginning Family Ministry — 6.9 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sugarloaf Creek Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Howe, OK
- Southside Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away