First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, IA 51001. It is one of 8 churches in Akron.
Akron FBC exists to develop a thriving community of believers that is passionately reaching the world for Jesus.
Akron, IA, 51001Website: https://akronfbc.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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
It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 36.6%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Horizons United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Union Creek Church — 4.9 mi away
- Westfield Congregational Church — 5.1 mi away in Westfield, IA
- Pleasant Hill Chapel — 7.5 mi away
- Big Springs Baptist Church — 8.3 mi away in Alcester, SD
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Elk Point Baptist Church — 11.8 mi away in Elk Point, SD
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