First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shelbyville, IL 62565. It is one of 22 churches in Shelbyville, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shelbyville, IL, 62565Website: http://www.fbcshelbyil.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 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 about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 32.9%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Shelbyville city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 519 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Shelbyville First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shelby Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Moulton Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Knobs Baptist Church — 9.1 mi away in Tower Hill, IL
- Strasburg Baptist — 10.7 mi away in Strasburg, IL
- First General Baptist Church — 14.6 mi away in Pana, IL
- First Baptist Church — 14.7 mi away in Pana, IL
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