First Union Missionary Baptist Church
First Union Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1301 Woodlawn Avenue in Ford Heights, IL 60411. It is one of 12 churches in Ford Heights, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to guide lost souls to Jesus while remaining a beacon of light and hope to our community and abroad.
We pour out our love towards you on purpose. We pray that you feel love as you encounter the First Union Family.
1301 Woodlawn Avenue, Ford Heights, IL, 60411Service times
- Tuesday 6pm
Phone: (708) 758-1588 · Website: https://www.firstunionbaptistchurch.org/
First Union 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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Latest from First Union MB Church of Ford Heights's YouTube channel: 09/28/2025 Morning Worship (all videos).
The community around First Union Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (5.7–16.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (12.4–31.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (7.0–22.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Union Missionary Baptist Church
- Trinity Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Cole Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginnings Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- God Can Ministries United Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sabbath Day Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Valley MB Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Beginnings Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Spirit International Ministries — 1.7 mi away in Lynwood, IL
- Saint Bethel Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
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