First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Alton, IL 62002. It is one of 71 churches in Alton, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Alton, IL, 62002Service times
- Tuesday 1pm
- Sunday 10:45am · mornings starting
- Sunday 9:30am · morning Starts
Shares a ministry location with City On The Hill Ministries - Alton and Relevant Church-STL.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Jail and Prison Ministry
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Food Insecurity: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (18.6–42.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (1.9–21.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Alton city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 640 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Relevant Church-STL — 0 mi away
- City On The Hill Ministries - Alton — 0 mi away
- The Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Open Door Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Millennium Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Alton Community Church Of God — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Apostolic Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
- Webster Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Heart Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul M.B. Church of Alton — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Deliverance Temple — 1 mi away