First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church 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.
Benton, IL, 62812First Free Will 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 Free Will Baptist Church
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: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (7.6–38.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (11.6–25.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- North Benton Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Awakening Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- OutBreak Student Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- Resurrection Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Benton Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Resurrection Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- East Benton Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away