First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 2641 Waldron Rd in Kankakee, IL 60901. It is one of 73 churches in Kankakee.
2641 Waldron Rd, Kankakee, IL, 60901Phone: (815) 932-2214 · Website: http://firstbaptistkankakee.com
First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than 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: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (13.2–26.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Journey Church — 0.7 mi away
- Eastridge Church of the Nazarene — 1.5 mi away
- Spirit And Truth Christian Church Ministries — 1.6 mi away
- Aroma Park United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Aroma Park, IL
- Aroma Park Church of the Nazarene — 1.7 mi away in Aroma Park, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Total Deliverance Church — 1.7 mi away in Aroma Park, IL
- Saint Teresa Roman Catholic Church — 1.9 mi away
- House-Prayer Apostolic Church — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Zion Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away