The Church In Dekalb
The Church In Dekalb is a church at 1600 E Lincoln Hwy in DeKalb, IL 60115-3905. It is one of 11 churches in DeKalb.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
1600 E Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL, 60115-3905Phone: (815) 408-1986 · Website: https://refugefellowshipdekalb.org/
The Church In Dekalb 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.
Ministries at The Church In Dekalb
- Children's Church
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The community around The Church In Dekalb
Within about a mile of this church, 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: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.9–31.4%)
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Child Poverty: 27.7% (9.7–45.7%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.7–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Church In Dekalb
- Christ Community Church DeKalb Campus — 0 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Templehead — 0.9 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- United Pentacostal Church of DeKalb — 0.9 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb — 1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- DeKalb Church of Christ — 1 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First United Methodist Church of DeKalb — 1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of DeKalb — 1.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of DeKalb — 1.1 mi away
- Baptist Campus Ministry — 2 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist — 2.9 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Bethany Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Sycamore, IL