Riverside Baptist Church
Riverside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Decatur, IL 62521. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur, and one of 20 Baptist congregations in the city.
In fulfilling this vision we seek to disciple anyone who is regularly attending or interested in becoming a member so that they can in turn disciple other believers as they learn to follow the Lord in every area of life and serve others as Jesus did.
Decatur, IL, 62521Service times
- Sunday 9am · School
- Sunday 10am · Service
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Shares a ministry location with Central Baptist Church and Vintage Church.
Riverside 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 Riverside Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (4.8–20.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (8.9–23.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.
Churches near Riverside Baptist Church
- Central Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Vintage Church — 0 mi away
- Bright Morning Star — 0.1 mi away
- Living Word Evangelistic Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cleveland Avenue Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Temple Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Baptist Bible Church — 0.7 mi away
- East Park Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away