Where is Bankston Fork Baptist Church located?

Bankston Fork Baptist Church is at 5890 Old Route 13, Harrisburg, IL, 62946-4140.

What time are services at Bankston Fork Baptist Church?

Bankston Fork Baptist Church meets Wednesday at 9:30am (Bible Study). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is Bankston Fork Baptist Church?

Bankston Fork Baptist Church in Harrisburg, IL is a Baptist church. It is one of 11 Baptist congregations in Harrisburg.

Bankston Fork Baptist Church

Bankston Fork Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5890 Old Route 13 in Harrisburg, IL 62946-4140. It is one of 45 churches in Harrisburg, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.

If you’re looking for a place to feel at home, grow in your faith, or just explore what it means to follow Jesus, we’d love to have you at Bankston Fork Church in Harrisburg, Illinois.

Bankston Fork Baptist Church was organized by Elder Wilson Henderson in 1818, the same year that Illinois became a state, making it the oldest Baptist church in Saline County.

Serving since 1818

5890 Old Route 13, Harrisburg, IL, 62946-4140

Service times

Wednesday 9:30am · Bible Study

Phone: (618) 252-0191 · Website: https://www.bankstonforkbaptistchurch.com/

Bankston Fork 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 — 71,418 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.

Ministries at Bankston Fork Baptist Church

Small Group Bible Study

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The community around Bankston Fork Baptist Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

Obesity: 40.5%
Social Isolation: 33.4%
Depression: 23.3%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
Food Insecurity: 15.7%
Diabetes: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bankston Fork Baptist Church

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