Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church
Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 500 College Avenue in Poteau, OK 74593. It is one of 35 churches in Poteau.
500 College Avenue, Poteau, OK, 74593Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 66 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Oklahoma — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.1%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6%
- Child Poverty: 29.1% (16.5–41.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (13.7–26.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (2.7–9.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Poteau city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 780 residents.
Churches near Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church
- Community of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Community Poteau — 0.6 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Beginning Family Ministry — 0.8 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church — 24.4 mi away in Fort Smith, AR