Charleston Baptist Church
Charleston Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2800 University Dr in Charleston, IL 61920-9167. It is one of 48 churches in Charleston, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
2800 University Dr, Charleston, IL, 61920-9167Service times
- Sunday 9am · Bible Fellowship Groups
Phone: +12173455081 · Website: https://charlestonbaptistchurch.org/
Charleston 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 Charleston 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 say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (18.1–35.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.2–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Charleston Baptist Church
- Charleston Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christian Campus House at EIU — 0.8 mi away
- Newman Catholic Center — 0.8 mi away
- Woodlawn Chapel — 1 mi away
- Vineyard Church — 1 mi away
- ACTS Campus Ministry at EIU — 1 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Christ First Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Enon Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Mattoon, IL
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