South Side Baptist Church

South Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Litchfield, IL 62056. It is one of 25 churches in Litchfield, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Litchfield, IL, 62056

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South Side 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 South Side 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: 40.3%
  • Social Isolation: 33.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.2% (13.6–30.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Diabetes: 14.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (2.5–11.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Litchfield city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.

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