Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1196 North Academy Street in Galesburg, IL 61401. It is one of 62 churches in Galesburg, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bethel has a long and beautiful history of God faithfully leading our church since 1888 here in Galesburg, IL.
1196 North Academy Street, Galesburg, IL, 61401Service times
- Thursday 8am
Phone: (309) 342-3166 · Website: http://www.mybethel.com/
Bethel 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.
Find Bethel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (8.8–24.1%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Galesburg city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 432 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Star of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Covenant Church — 0.4 mi away
- Radiant Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Open Bible — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Heights Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Colonial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Colonial Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Harmony Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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