Prior Grove Baptist Church
Prior Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oblong, IL 62449. It is one of 14 churches in Oblong, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Oblong, IL, 62449Prior Grove 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 Prior Grove Baptist Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Prior Grove Baptist Church
- Leeper Church — 2.1 mi away
- Seed Chapel — 2.7 mi away
- Zion Church — 3.6 mi away in Robinson, IL
- Berlin Congregational Church — 3.6 mi away
- Eureka Church — 3.8 mi away in Robinson, IL
- First Baptist Church of Oblong — 5.2 mi away
- Bible Chapel — 5.2 mi away in Robinson, IL
- Evangelical United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church — 5.3 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Oblong — 5.2 mi away
- New Hebron Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Robinson, IL
- First Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in Robinson, IL
- Highland Avenue Baptist Church — 9.1 mi away in Robinson, IL
- Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 9.3 mi away in Willow Hill, IL