First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 515 North Ladd Street in Pontiac, IL 61764. It is one of 25 churches in Pontiac.
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, 61764Phone: +1-815-842-4321 · Website: https://www.fbcpontiac.org/
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 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