First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Granite City, IL 62040. It is one of 79 churches in Granite City, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Granite City, IL, 62040First 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.0–36.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Granite City city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 908 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Peters Evangelical and Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- Neidringhaus United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Niedringhaus Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metro East Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Central Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- GCFirst — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Genesis Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- West Twentysecond Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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