First Baptist Church of Benton
First Baptist Church of Benton is a Baptist church in Benton, IL 62812. It is one of 37 churches in Benton, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Welcome to First Baptist Church of Benton, Illinois. We are a small congregation with a big, warm heart!
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Benton, IL, 62812Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School is
Website: https://bentonfirstbaptist.org/
First Baptist Church of Benton 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 of Benton
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Child Poverty: 23.8% (8.4–39.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.8–26.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Benton
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Sabbath Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Benton Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- West City First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in West City, IL
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sabbath Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West City First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in West City, IL
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Resurrection Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- East Benton Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away