Hurricane Memorial Baptist Church
Hurricane Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Herrin, IL 62948. It is one of 28 churches in Herrin, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Herrin, IL, 62948Hurricane Memorial 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 — 71,417 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 Hurricane Memorial 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (15.2–33.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Child Poverty: 28.6% (12.6–44.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Herrin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 529 residents.
Churches near Hurricane Memorial Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Monroe Street Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Adams Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church Herrin — 0.9 mi away
- Bryan Street Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away