First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Zeigler, IL 62999. It is one of 5 churches in Zeigler, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Zeigler, IL, 62999First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (3.8–12.3%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Zeigler Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zeigler Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Beginnings Free Will Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Minor Church — 2.4 mi away
- Creek Nation Church — 2.4 mi away
- Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Orthodox Church — 3.5 mi away in Royalton, IL
- Royalton Church of the Nazarene — 3.5 mi away in Royalton, IL
- First Christian Church — 3.7 mi away in Royalton, IL
- Buggtussel Church — 3.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Beginnings Free Will Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Royalton First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Royalton, IL
- First Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Christopher, IL
- Third Baptist Church — 6 mi away in West Frankfort, IL
- Bryan Street Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Herrin, IL