Located eight blocks from the University of Arkansas, First Baptist Church Fayetteville has long been known for the variety of people who are members. They represent every social and economic classification, multiple ethnicities and nationalities, and every living generation. A scholar, a farmer/carpenter, and a pioneer preacher who founded the church nearly 170 years ago launched a congregation whose cultural distinctions fade as they unite together in a common purpose to "Connect, Grow, Serve, and Go" in order to make disciples of Jesus Christ from Northwest Arkansas to the ends of the earth. As an autonomous local church we join with other churches in the Washington-Madison Baptist Association, the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and the Southern Baptist Convention to do together what no one church can do alone.