Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 515 North Ladd Street, Pontiac, IL, 61764.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 10am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Pontiac, IL is a Baptist church. It is one of 2 Baptist congregations in Pontiac.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 515 North Ladd Street in Pontiac, IL 61764. It is one of 28 churches in Pontiac, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

We will use all available resources to nurture maturing faith including teaching, fellowship, prayer, encouragement and witnessing.

The purpose of First Baptist Church is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves, to make disciples to Jesus Christ, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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515 North Ladd Street, Pontiac, IL, 61764

Service times

Sunday 10am

Phone: (815) 842-4321 · Website: https://www.fbcpontiac.org/

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 — 71,417 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 have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,100 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: 34.6%
Obesity: 37.4%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
Food Insecurity: 16.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Pontiac city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 247 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Central Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
Authentic Church — 0.3 mi away
Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
Pontiac Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
Christian Fellowship-Pontiac — 0.4 mi away
Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
First United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
First Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away

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Christ Community Church — 10.5 mi away in Chenoa, IL
First Baptist Church of Fairbury — 11.2 mi away in Fairbury, IL

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