First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monmouth, IL 61462. It is one of 29 churches in Monmouth, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Monmouth, IL, 61462First 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 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.7–48.3%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (9.7–24.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.4–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Monmouth city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 237 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- New Life Foursquare Church — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Crossing — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newness of Life Christian Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Apostolic Church of Monmouth — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Maple City Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fairview Center Church — 4.6 mi away