First Baptist Church of Ames
First Baptist Church of Ames is a Baptist church at 200 Lynn Avenue in Ames, IA 50014. It is one of 61 churches in Ames, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church is an open and caring family of faith where worship is central and faith engages both heart and mind. We are warmly ecumenical, delight in our diversity, and cherish our Baptist heritage of freedom. We are called by Christ to share God’s love with the campus, community, and the world.
200 Lynn Avenue, Ames, IA, 50014Website: http://fbcames.org/
First Baptist Church of Ames 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 of Ames
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Poverty Rate: 78.0%
- Social Isolation: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.5%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (7.6–18.2%)
- Depression: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ames city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,594 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Ames
- Memorial Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- University Lutheran Center — 0.1 mi away
- Buster Pro 2024 T61 — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's by the Campus Episcopal Church of Ames — 0.2 mi away
- International Outreach Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Collegiate United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Campus Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Collegiate Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church - Ames, IA — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Salt Network — 1.8 mi away
- Grand Avenue Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Heartland Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 4.2 mi away