Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Poteau, OK 74953. It is one of 35 churches in Poteau, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Poteau, OK, 74953Website: http://www.southsidepoteau.com/
Southside 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 — 71,874 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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Latest from Southside Baptist Church's YouTube channel: SSBC Youth: Fall 2017 "The Gospel Series" (all videos).
The community around Southside Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 more than 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: 26.8%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (20.9–47.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (16.2–30.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
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 Southside Baptist Church
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginning Family Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shepherd's Heart Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Community Poteau — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Poteau Valley Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Howe, OK
- Sugarloaf Creek Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away