First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawrenceville, IL 62439. It is one of 24 churches in Lawrenceville.
Lawrenceville, IL, 62439First 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
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: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (15.5–30.4%)
- Child Poverty: 29.9% (14.1–45.7%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.0–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lawrenceville city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 188 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Lawrence Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Sumner, IL
- Southside Presbyterian Church — 9.2 mi away in Vincennes, IN
- First Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Vincennes, IN
- Canaan Primitive Baptist Church — 10.9 mi away in Flat Rock, IL
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