Baptist Campus Ministry
Baptist Campus Ministry is a Baptist church at 449 Normal Road in DeKalb, IL 60115. It is one of 11 churches in DeKalb, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our Congregational style is primarily a student ministry located in an educational setting, and therefore, is geared more towards accommodating a transitional student body.
449 Normal Road, DeKalb, IL, 60115Service times
- Thursday 1pm
Phone: (815) 756-2131 · Website: http://www.baptistcampusministryniu.com/
Baptist Campus Ministry 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.
Ministries at Baptist Campus Ministry
- Bible Study
- Service Projects
- Worship
- Outreach
Find Baptist Campus Ministry on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Baptist Campus Ministry
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (21.8–44.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Unemployment: 15.5% (8.7–22.4%)
- Child Poverty: 39.2% (25.9–52.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
- Obesity: 36.0%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
DeKalb city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,276 residents.
Churches near Baptist Campus Ministry
- Newman Catholic Student Center — 0.1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- The Abbey College Church — 0.2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Christ Community Church - DeKalb Campus — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- St Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- NIU Cru — 0.7 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Congregational United — 0.8 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Foursquare Church of De Kalb — 0.9 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of DeKalb — 1 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist — 1.1 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Bethany Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Sycamore Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Sycamore, IL