First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a church at 800 E Elm St in Watseka, IL 60970-1463. It is one of 13 churches in Watseka.

800 E Elm St, Watseka, IL, 60970-1463

Phone: +18154322216 · Website: https://firstbaptisthoopeston.com/

First 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 Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 47.4% (32.2–62.6%)
  • Obesity: 46.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 27.5%
  • Diabetes: 18.5%
  • Social Isolation: 35.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.9%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (3.5–13.7%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
  • Depression: 25.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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