First Southern Baptist Church

First Southern Baptist Church is a church at 3521 Dewitt Ave in Mattoon, IL 61938-2231. It is one of 58 churches in Mattoon.

3521 Dewitt Ave, Mattoon, IL, 61938-2231

Phone: +12172348314 · Website: https://www.fsbcmattoon.com/

First Southern 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 Southern Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 35.7% (18.8–52.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 33.2%
  • Obesity: 39.4%
  • Depression: 23.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.4% (12.7–26.0%)

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

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