West Side Baptist Church
West Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Centralia, IL 62801. It is one of 54 churches in Centralia, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Centralia, IL, 62801West Side 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 West Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of 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: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (17.9–37.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.4–15.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
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 West Side Baptist Church
- Faith United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away in Wamac, IL
- Locust Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Day Star Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Demaree United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Redeemer — 0.7 mi away
- Cornerstone United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- The Bridge, Missionary Bible Church (Eglise Missionnaire Haitienne De La Bible) — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Locust Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Wamac Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Wamac, IL
- First Baptist Church of Centralia — 1.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 1.1 mi away
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