Benson Baptist Church
Benson Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 402 Pleasant Street in Benson, IL 61516. It is one of 5 churches in Benson.
The purpose of our church goes beyond brick and mortar. It focuses on people. Throughout our history, the Lord has saved souls and changed lives through the preaching of the Gospel in this rural community.
402 Pleasant Street, Benson, IL, 61516Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (309) 394-2259 · Website: https://www.bensonbaptistchurch.com/
Benson 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 — 71,418 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.
Find Benson Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Benson Baptist Church
It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Obesity: 38.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Benson Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Benson, IL — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Brethren Church — 4.4 mi away in Roanoke, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 5.4 mi away in Roanoke, IL
- St Paul's United Church of Christ — 5.4 mi away in Minonk, IL
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 5.5 mi away in Minonk, IL
- Saint Paul's United Church of Christ — 5.6 mi away in Minonk, IL
- Roanoke United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away in Roanoke, IL
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- First Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in El Paso, IL
- Faith Baptist Church of Eureka — 11.9 mi away in Eureka, IL
- First Baptist Church — 14.2 mi away in Metamora, IL
- First Baptist Church — 18.1 mi away in Graymont, IL