First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sparta, IL 62286. It is one of 28 churches in Sparta, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sparta, IL, 62286First 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 — 71,418 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.2–16.1%)
- Child Poverty: 29.4% (12.4–46.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (11.1–26.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sparta city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 270 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Gospel Chapel Hall — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Landmark Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Road To Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sparta Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Tilden — 6.1 mi away in Tilden, IL
- First Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Coulterville, IL
- Steeleville Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Steeleville, IL
- First Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Percy, IL