Eastside Baptist Church
Eastside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sallisaw, OK 74955. It is one of 44 churches in Sallisaw, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sallisaw, OK, 74955Eastside 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 Eastside Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 60.2% (45.0–75.4%)
- Obesity: 52.6%
- Poverty Rate: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 30.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (11.9–22.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.5–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Sallisaw city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 177 residents.
Churches near Eastside Baptist Church
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Faith — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Life Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- The House — 0.6 mi away
- Greater New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Badger Lee Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away