Faith Baptist Church
Faith Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2005 Freeport Road in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our purpose is to glorify God through the clear proclamation of His Word, so that individuals might enter a personal relationship with Him through the person and work of Jesus Christ and might worship Him rightly.
FBC is a conservative, independent Baptist church serving Sterling and surrounding communities for over 60 years.
2005 Freeport Road, Sterling, IL, 61081Website: https://www.faithbaptiststerling.com/
Faith 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 — 71,417 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 Faith Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (10.5–26.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.4–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near Faith Baptist Church
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- 16th Ave Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Reformed Mennonite Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling — 1 mi away
- Full Gospel Assembly — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away