Galilee Baptist Church

Galilee Baptist Church is a church at 3470 N Christmas Tree Rd in Decatur, IL 62521-8685. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur.

3470 N Christmas Tree Rd, Decatur, IL, 62521-8685

Phone: 12178757558 · Website: http://www.galileedecatur.com/

Galilee 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.

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The community around Galilee Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Obesity: 45.2%
  • Unemployment: 13.0% (6.7–19.4%)
  • Child Poverty: 34.8% (20.4–51.1%)
  • Social Isolation: 34.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.5% (13.8–33.1%)
  • Food Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
  • Depression: 23.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
  • Diabetes: 14.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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