First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 308 S. Grand Ave. West in Springfield, IL 62704. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield.
308 S. Grand Ave. West, Springfield, IL, 62704Phone: (217) 523-7731 · Website: http://www.springfieldfirstbaptist.org
First 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
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: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (15.0–35.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (1.8–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Laurel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Order of Christ the Saviour — 0.5 mi away
- Cathedral Church of St Paul — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Anthony Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Springfield Christians — 0.6 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — 0.6 mi away
- Westminister Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Timothy Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Pastfield Southern Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Harvard Park Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Delta Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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