First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Charleston, IL 61920. It is one of 48 churches in Charleston.
Charleston, IL, 61920Service times
- Sunday 9am · Bible Fellowship Groups
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
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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 78.3%
- Poverty Rate: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 675 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Brethren Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crossroads Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Holiness Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
- Destination Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Charleston Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Enon Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away
- Ashmore Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in Ashmore, IL
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