First Southern Baptist Church

First Southern Baptist Church is a church at 1437 4th St in Cottage Hills, IL 62018-1420. It is one of 8 churches in Cottage Hills.

1437 4th St, Cottage Hills, IL, 62018-1420

Phone: (618) 259-2388 · Website: http://1stsoubaptchurchofforesthomes.net/

First Southern 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 — 71,420 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 Southern Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 42.4%
  • Child Poverty: 39.6% (27.6–51.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.5% (16.8–34.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Unemployment: 8.3% (2.9–13.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
  • Depression: 25.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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