Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 208 N Maple St, Christopher, IL, 62822.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9:30am (School is). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Christopher, IL is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist 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, 62822

Service times

Sunday 9:30am · School is

Phone: (618) 724-9390 · Website: https://bentonfirstbaptist.org/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 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 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

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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 in Benton, IL
Holy Nativity Virgin Mary Orthodox Church — 2.2 mi away in Buckner, IL
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Valier Second Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL
Valier Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Valier, IL

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