First General Baptist Church
First General Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Staunton, IL 62088. It is one of 9 churches in Staunton, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Staunton, IL, 62088First General 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 General Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.1% (12.7–25.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Staunton city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 769 residents.
Churches near First General Baptist Church
- Net Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Assembly Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope Tabernacle — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Michaels Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 2.5 mi away in Livingston, IL
- First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Livingston, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- First United Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Livingston, IL
- New Hope Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Worden, IL
- First Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Mt Olive, IL
- First Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Benld, IL