First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fairfield, IL 62837. It is one of 40 churches in Fairfield, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fairfield, IL, 62837Service times
- Sunday 10:15am
- Sunday 9am · school for all ages
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
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 — 71,418 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
- Children's Programs
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (10.7–43.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (10.6–25.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Fairfield city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 331 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0 mi away
- The Wesleyan Church of Fairfield — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Safe Haven Bible Center — 0.4 mi away
- NYOC — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Ellen Moore United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Edward Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Side Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Arrington Prairie Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 12.5 mi away in Wayne City, IL
- Wayne City Baptist Church — 12.5 mi away in Wayne City, IL
- Samaria Missionary Baptist Church — 12.9 mi away in Albion, IL
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