First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Marion, IL 62959. It is one of 73 churches in Marion, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Marion, IL, 62959First 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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.2%
- Child Poverty: 36.2% (22.2–51.7%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (16.6–34.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.6–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marion city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 359 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- high point church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Community Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Warder Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Warder Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pauls Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Parish Park Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away