First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chester, IL 62233. It is one of 11 churches in Chester.
Chester, IL, 62233First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Celebrate Recovery
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (9.9–27.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Church of Our Lady — 1 mi away in Perryville, MO
- Grace Church Ministries — 1.4 mi away
- The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Roman Catholic Church — 5.5 mi away in Perryville, MO
More Baptist churches nearby
- Steeleville Baptist Church — 11.1 mi away in Steeleville, IL
- Calvary Baptist Church — 12.3 mi away in Perryville, MO
- First Baptist Church — 13.7 mi away in Percy, IL
- Saline Baptist Church — 14.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 16.5 mi away in Sparta, IL