First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 617 Jefferson Street in Brooklyn, IL 62059. It is one of 12 churches in Brooklyn, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
617 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, IL, 62059First Free Will 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.
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The community around First Free Will Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 nearly half 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: 53.9%
- Food Insecurity: 47.4%
- Child Poverty: 45.3% (26.6–64.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 42.3% (26.6–57.9%)
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 17.5% (5.2–29.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Transforming Word Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brooklyn Christian Faith Center — 0.1 mi away
- Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lovejoy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ Jesus All Nation — 0.2 mi away
- St. Elizabeth Temple — 0.2 mi away
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church of Venice — 0.2 mi away in Venice, IL