First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Paris, IL 61944. It is one of 33 churches in Paris.
Serving since 2016
Paris, IL, 61944Service times
- Sunday 10am · Morning WorshipMorning worship begins
- Sunday 6pm · night
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 33.2%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Child Poverty: 25.1% (7.3–42.9%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Paris city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 772 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- God's Gang & Crossroads — 0.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Paris First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Paris Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Marshall Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Marshall, IL
- Clarksville Baptist Church — 12.3 mi away in Marshall, IL
- Chrisman First Baptist Church — 13.5 mi away in Chrisman, IL
- Shepardsville Baptist Church — 14.9 mi away in Clinton, IN
- Crossroads Baptist Church — 14.9 mi away