First Baptist Church of DeKalb
First Baptist Church of DeKalb is a Baptist church at 349 South 3rd St in DeKalb, IL 60115. It is one of 11 churches in DeKalb, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church of DeKalb is a Christ-Centered, Growing Community, Shining the Light of Christ.
349 South 3rd St, DeKalb, IL, 60115Service times
- Tuesday 6pm
Website: http://firstbaptistdekalb.org/
First Baptist Church of DeKalb 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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Latest from First Baptist Church DeKalb IL's YouTube channel: FBC Sunday Service 8-2-26 (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church of DeKalb
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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (17.8–40.6%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (0.8–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
DeKalb city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,276 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of DeKalb
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Foursquare Church of De Kalb — 0.1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of DeKalb — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Rock Christian Church — 0.4 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- DeKalb Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- DeKalb Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away in Dekalb, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Campus Ministry — 1 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist — 2 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.2 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