American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region is a Baptist church at 501 S 4th St in Springfield, IL 62701-1715. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mission and Ministry is our purpose and nature.
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region is a resource for challenging, empowering, assisting and representing the American Baptist faith communities in Illinois (excluding Cook, DuPage and Lake counties) and Missouri as we live out our ministry together.
501 S 4th St, Springfield, IL, 62701-1715Phone: (217) 726-7366 · Website: https://www.abcgrr.org/
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,419 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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Upcoming events at American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
- Tue, Sep 22 · 9 AM: Salem Cluster meets 4th Tuesday monthly 9:00 a.m. @ The Old Dairy, Macomb
- Thu, Oct 1 · 8 AM: Greenville-Highland Cluster meets - various locations
- Thu, Oct 1 · 9:30 AM: Council on Ministerial Standing and Ordination meets
- Mon, Oct 5 · 12 PM: Champaign Cluster meets 1st Monday monthly 12:00 noon various locations
- Tue, Oct 6 · 12 PM: Murphysboro Cluster meets 1st Tuesday monthly 12:00 noon - location varies
From American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region's public calendar (https://www.abcgrr.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (17.6–41.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.2–14.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Order of Christ the Saviour — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — 0.3 mi away
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