First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Cairo, IL 62914. It is one of 37 churches in Cairo, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Cairo, IL, 62914Website: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/firstmissionarybaptist
First 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 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (4.3–21.0%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.4% (9.1–43.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (9.1–29.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Cairo city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 20 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Klondike Holy Trinity Church of Deliverance — 0 mi away
- Holy City Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Everdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Washington Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Michaels Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Everdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Washington Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Is Lord Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away