First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Du Quoin, IL 62832. It is one of 22 churches in Du Quoin, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Du Quoin, IL, 62832First Baptist Church 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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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 49.1% (34.8–63.4%)
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (18.3–36.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.8–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Du Quoin city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 301 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Vision Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gospel Assembly Church — 0.6 mi away
- Philadelphia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Du Quoin Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sunfield Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Old Du Quoin Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Elkville, IL
- Nine Mile Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away