First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 401 Glenwood Drive in Rantoul, IL 61866. It is one of 24 churches in Rantoul, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
401 Glenwood Drive, Rantoul, IL, 61866Phone: +1-217-892-2667 · Website: https://fbcrantoul.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Child Poverty: 26.2% (12.2–41.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (11.3–25.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (7.1–20.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rantoul village is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 254 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Rantoul Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rantoul Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Malachy Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- UPCI - Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Internacional La Senda Antigua — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- American Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Jesús Salva — 1 mi away
- Crossroad of Life Community Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Light Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in Paxton, IL
- Faith Baptist Church — 10.3 mi away in Champaign, IL