First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elgin, IL 60123. It is one of 116 churches in Elgin, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elgin, IL, 60123Shares a ministry location with Lighthouse Baptist Church.
First Missionary 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 Missionary Baptist Church
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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (10.6–43.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (9.4–27.0%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (8.4–16.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.2–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elgin city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,854 residents.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Culture Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia de Cristo en Elgin — 0.6 mi away
- Cdrelgin — 0.7 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Philadelphia Holiness Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Vineyard Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Church of Elgin — 0.8 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana — 1 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Grace Covenant Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away