Good News Baptist Church
Good News Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Peoria, IL 61606. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Peoria, IL, 61606Good News 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 — 71,420 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 Good News Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 73.2% (53.5–92.8%)
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (24.8–45.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (7.0–17.7%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.5–22.0%)
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Good News Baptist Church
- Extraordinary Solitude — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Heaven's View Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Joseph Newman Center — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mark's Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hilltop Campus Church — 0.6 mi away
- Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away