First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Decatur, IL 62522. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elevator · Part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Decatur, IL, 62522Service times
- Sunday 8:45am
- Sunday 10am · School
- Sunday 11:15am
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 — 71,417 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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 35.8% (24.0–47.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Unemployment: 16.2% (6.0–26.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Salem Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation Army Citadel — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Salem Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Baptist Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Riverside Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away