Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church
Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 600 East Pennsylvania Avenue in Urbana, IL 61801. It is one of 64 churches in Urbana, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
600 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801Service times
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: (217) 367-5924 · Website: https://www.pabcurbana.org/
Shares a ministry location with Champaign-Urbana River of Life Fellowship.
Pennsylvania Avenue 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.
Ministries at Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church
- American Heritage Girls
- Trail Life
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The community around Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.0% (10.2–21.9%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.1–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Urbana city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 1,027 residents.
Churches near Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church
- Champaign-Urbana River of Life Fellowship — 0 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Rising Hope Church — 0.6 mi away
- FIrst Wesleyan Church of Urbana — 0.6 mi away
- Acts United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Baha'i Center — 0.7 mi away
- EmcChurch — 0.7 mi away
- All Souls Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redeemer Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Redeemer Church — 0.7 mi away
- Berean Covenant Church — 0.8 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Greater Philadelphia Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away