First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Murphysboro, IL 62966. It is one of 31 churches in Murphysboro, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Murphysboro, IL, 62966First 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (2.0–16.6%)
- Depression: 23.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.1–26.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Murphysboro city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 280 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- SFC Outreach Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away
- Murphysboro United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Gilead Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Elm Street Southern Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Gilead Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Elm Street Southern Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pate Chapel Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
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