First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Colfax, IA 50054. It is one of 8 churches in Colfax, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Colfax, IA, 50054First 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 3.9 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 nearly a quarter 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: 37.6%
- Social Isolation: 29.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Colfax Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Colfax United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Howard Street Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Reformed Church — 5.3 mi away in Prairie City, IA
- Prairie City Christian Church — 5.3 mi away in Prairie City, IA
- First Reformed Church — 5.3 mi away in Prairie City, IA
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Prairie City, IA
- First Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Newton, IA
- First Southern Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Newton, IA
- Newton Baptist Temple — 10.8 mi away in Newton, IA