First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mount Vernon, IL 62864. It is one of 57 churches in Mount Vernon, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mount Vernon, IL, 62864First 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 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 61.9%
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (24.1–45.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (7.4–19.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Depression: 24.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Antioch International Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Seed Ministries — 0.1 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Gateway Church — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Mt.Vernon Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Patrick's Anglican — 0.3 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gateway Church — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
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