First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 1705 6th Ave in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling.
1705 6th Ave, Sterling, IL, 61081Phone: (815) 625-1288 · Website: http://fbcsterlingil.com
Shares a ministry location with Open Door Community Church.
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 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 32.2%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Food Insecurity: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Open Door Community Church — 0 mi away
- Bethel Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- 16th Ave Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- New Hope Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Rock Falls, IL