First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 203 E Cross St in Dongola, IL 62926-1027. It is one of 8 churches in Dongola.
The mission of First Baptist Church of Dongola, Illinois is telling the good news of Jesus Christ, teaching Biblical living and ministering to people for the glory of God.
Part of Clear Creek Baptist Association
203 E Cross St, Dongola, IL, 62926-1027Service times
- Sunday 10:05am · Morning
Phone: (618) 827-4391 · Website: https://dongolafirst.com/
First 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 — 71,417 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 First Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
- Children’s Wednesday Night Ministry
- Childrens Church
- Vacation Bible School
- Youth Group
- Sunday School
- Operation Christmas Child
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.8% (12.0–39.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (13.1–27.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.2–18.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Church — 2 mi away
- Wetaug Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away in Wetaug, IL
- Christian Chapel — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 3.9 mi away
- Big Creek Church — 4.4 mi away in Anna, IL
- Friendship Church — 4.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 4.7 mi away in Anna, IL
- Beech Grove Church — 5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Bethany Church — 6.6 mi away
- Anna Heights Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Anna, IL
- Faith Community Church — 8 mi away in Anna, IL
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