First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Girard, IL 62640. It is one of 9 churches in Girard.
Girard, IL, 62640First 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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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Child Poverty: 25.7% (10.4–41.4%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.3–24.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- United Methodist Church of Girard — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- New House of Prayer Church — 1.6 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Countryview Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in Virden, IL
- Grace Southern Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Virden, IL
- Boston Chapel Christian Church — 3.7 mi away
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.8 mi away in Virden, IL
- Church of the Brethren — 3.8 mi away in Virden, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Southern Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Virden, IL
- United Pentecostal Church of Virden — 3.9 mi away in Virden, IL
- First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Virden, IL
- Auburn Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Auburn, IL
- Meadowbrook Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Auburn, IL