First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mattoon, IL 61938. It is one of 58 churches in Mattoon, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to COME to worship and fellowship, GROW in our relationship with Christ and one another, and GO into our world to witness and to serve.
Mattoon, IL, 61938Service times
- Sunday 8am
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8:30am · through
- Wednesday 7pm
Shares a ministry location with Mattoon Christian Church.
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 — 71,418 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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Latest from FBCJoyTV's YouTube channel: 2026-09-06 FBC Mattoon LIVE Worship Service held at the First Baptist Church of Mattoon, Illinois (all videos).
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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 40.6%
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (18.7–52.5%)
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (13.2–32.3%)
- Depression: 24.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.8–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Mattoon city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 147 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Mattoon Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Church (Mattoon, Illinois) — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Davis Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Central Community Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away