First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 628 South Church Street in Gibson City, IL 60936. It is one of 16 churches in Gibson City, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
628 South Church Street, Gibson City, IL, 60936Phone: (217) 784-5931
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 — 71,417 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
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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (3.7–13.1%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gibson City city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 334 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gibson City Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- American Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gibson City United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gibson City Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Pillar and Ground Independent Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gibson City Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pillar and Ground Independent Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Prairie Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 14.4 mi away in Paxton, IL
- First Southern Baptist Church — 15 mi away in Paxton, IL
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