First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 208 N Maple St in Christopher, IL 62822. It is one of 5 churches in Christopher.
Welcome to First Baptist Church of Benton, Illinois. We are a small congregation with a big, warm heart!
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208 N Maple St, Christopher, IL, 62822Phone: (618) 724-9390 · Website: https://bentonfirstbaptist.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.0–49.0%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.8–26.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.4–9.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Horizons Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Andrew's Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Christ's View Christian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Buggtussel Church — 1.9 mi away
- Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
- Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church — 2.2 mi away in Buckner, IL
- Valier First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Valier, IL
- Valier Second Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL
- Valier Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL