Gaskin City Missionary Baptist Church

Gaskin City Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harrisburg, IL 62946. It is one of 45 churches in Harrisburg, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.

Harrisburg, IL, 62946

Gaskin City Missionary 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 Gaskin City Missionary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 41.8%
  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.1% (17.0–39.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Diabetes: 14.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (0.4–12.6%)

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

Harrisburg city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 1,700 residents.

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