Greater New Light Baptist Church
Greater New Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1500 Sheppard Place in Rantoul, IL 61866. It is one of 25 churches in Rantoul, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
1500 Sheppard Place, Rantoul, IL, 61866Phone: +1-217-893-8342
Greater New Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Greater New Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.7%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.9–32.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (12.6–42.0%)
- Depression: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (5.8–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Rantoul village is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 254 residents.
Churches near Greater New Light Baptist Church
- Exceed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centro de Vida Church Rantoul — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Christopher Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Park Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ignite Youth Rantoul — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Unida de Rantoul — 0.6 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Jesús Salva — 0.9 mi away