First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Pekin, IL 61554. It is one of 42 churches in Pekin, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
To produce fully devoted followers of Jesus, who love God and people!
First Baptist Church cares about one thing more than anything else, Jesus Christ. First Baptist Church is a family of individuals that have found hope in Jesus, and simply want as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.
Pekin, IL, 61554Website: https://www.fbcpekin.com/
Shares a ministry location with 412 Student Ministries.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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: 34.7%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.8–14.3%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pekin city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- 412 Student Ministries — 0 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pekin City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- River of Life Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 0.7 mi away