Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Galesburg, IL 61401. It is one of 62 churches in Galesburg, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Galesburg, IL, 61401Shares a ministry location with The Remnant Bible Church.
Bethany 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.
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The community around Bethany 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.0% (24.5–45.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.1–10.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Galesburg city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 432 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- The Remnant Bible Church — 0 mi away
- Sacred Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Rock Apostolic Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Ascent Church — 0.5 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Harmony Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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