Locust Street Baptist Church

Locust Street Baptist Church is a church in Centralia, IL 62801. It is one of 54 churches in Centralia.

Centralia, IL, 62801

Shares a ministry location with Day Star Tabernacle.

Locust Street 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 Locust Street 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. 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: 41.4%
Social Isolation: 35.9%
Poverty Rate: 27.2% (17.9–36.5%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
Food Insecurity: 22.3%
Unemployment: 11.4% (5.2–17.6%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
Depression: 24.1%
Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
Diabetes: 13.9%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Centralia city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 301 residents.

Churches near Locust Street Baptist Church

Day Star Tabernacle — 0 mi away
Demaree United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Cornerstone United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
First Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer — 0.5 mi away
First Baptist Church of Centralia — 0.5 mi away
First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
The Bridge, Missionary Bible Church (Eglise Missionnaire Haitienne De La Bible) — 0.6 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
First Baptist Church of Centralia — 0.5 mi away
First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
West Side Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
Eternity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away

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