First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 200 E Edwards St in Joy, IL 61260. It is one of 2 churches in Joy.
200 E Edwards St, Joy, IL, 61260Phone: (309) 584-4122 · Website: https://qcbaptists.org/church/4719
First 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
It takes 5.6 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 33.3%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
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- Aledo Gospel Center — 6.4 mi away in Aledo, IL
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 6.6 mi away in Aledo, IL
- Trinity Presbyterian Church of Aledo - PCA — 6.6 mi away in Aledo, IL
- College Avenue Presbyterian Church — 6.6 mi away in Aledo, IL
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 6.6 mi away in Aledo, IL
- First Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away in Aledo, IL
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