First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Arthur, IL 61911. It is one of 19 churches in Arthur.
Arthur, IL, 61911First 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
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 39.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Vine Street Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Arthur United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prairie Mennonite Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstoe Church — 0.3 mi away
- Arthu Mennonite Church — 0.3 mi away
- Arthur Community Vacation Bible School — 0.3 mi away
- North Vine Mennonite Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Arthur Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Atwood, IL
- First Baptist Church of Arcola — 9.1 mi away in Arcola, IL
- St John the Baptist Catholic Church — 9.1 mi away in Arcola, IL
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away