What denomination is First Baptist Church of Goreville?

First Baptist Church of Goreville in Goreville, IL is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church of Goreville

First Baptist Church of Goreville is a Baptist church in Goreville, IL 62939. It is one of 10 churches in Goreville.

Goreville, IL, 62939

First Baptist Church of Goreville is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,419 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 of Goreville

It takes 4.0 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: 32.3%
Obesity: 39.8%
Child Poverty: 23.6% (11.7–35.5%)
Depression: 23.2%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church of Goreville

Goreville United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
Goreville Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
Busby Church — 1.5 mi away
Friendship Church — 1.5 mi away
Pulleys Mill Pentecostal Church — 3 mi away
Southern Range Cowboy Church — 3.1 mi away
Cedar Grove Church — 3.9 mi away
McKinney Chapel — 4 mi away in Marion, IL
Bethlehem Church — 4.3 mi away in Ozark, IL

More Baptist churches nearby

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First Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Vienna, IL

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