First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 213 West Fayette Avenue in Effingham, IL 62401. It is one of 31 churches in Effingham, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church exists to glorify God by making deep disciples of Jesus through Christ-exalting worship, Word-saturated growth, Spirit-empowered service, and gospel-driven mission.
213 West Fayette Avenue, Effingham, IL, 62401Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: +1-217-342-3976 · Website: https://fbceffingham.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.8% (9.0–38.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Effingham Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Anthonys Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community of Christ Effingham — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Beginnings Church — 0.6 mi away