First Baptist Church of Smithton
First Baptist Church of Smithton is a Baptist church in Smithton, IL 62285. It is one of 3 churches in Smithton.
Smithton, IL, 62285Phone: (618) 407-3244 · Website: http://www.fbcsmithton.com/
First Baptist Church of Smithton 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 of Smithton
It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.7–9.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Smithton
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 4 mi away in Waterloo, IL
- Saint Michael Church — 4 mi away in Waterloo, IL
- Freeburg First Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Freeburg, IL
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Freeburg, IL
- Faith Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Freeburg, IL
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 4.8 mi away in Freeburg, IL
- Journey Church — 4.8 mi away in Freeburg, IL
- Church of Christ At Freeburg — 4.9 mi away in Freeburg, IL
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