First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Cherokee, IA 51012. It is one of 10 churches in Cherokee, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Cherokee, IA, 51012First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of 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.
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (13.5–35.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Cross Roads Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith in Christ Fellowship Church — 2.1 mi away
- Meriden Evangelical Free Church — 5.2 mi away in Meriden, IA