First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mattoon, IL 61938. It is one of 55 churches in Mattoon, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mattoon, IL, 61938Shares a ministry location with Mattoon Christian Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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 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