First Baptist Church of Fairview Heights

First Baptist Church of Fairview Heights is a Southern Baptist church at 10401 Lincoln Trl in Fairview Heights, IL 62208-1909. It is one of 26 churches in Fairview Heights.

The history of First Baptist Church can be traced back as far as 1802 with the establishment of the Richland Arm of Christ at New Design.

10401 Lincoln Trl, Fairview Heights, IL, 62208-1909

Phone: +16183974720 · Website: https://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/illinois.fairview.hgts.1st.bapt.html

Shares a ministry location with Roselawn Church.

First Baptist Church of Fairview Heights 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 of Fairview Heights

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 2,100 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: 42.1%
  • Social Isolation: 34.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.7%
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Unemployment: 10.0% (4.7–15.4%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.8% (8.7–28.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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