First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Cresco, IA 52136. It is one of 16 churches in Cresco, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Cresco, IA, 52136Service times
Sunday School | 10:00am (as listed)
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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Missions
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Latest from First Baptist Church Waukon IA's YouTube channel: August 2, 2026: 1 Thess. 5:1-6, The Day of the Lord (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Cresco city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 495 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Faith Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- First Congregational Church of Cresco — 0.1 mi away
- Notre Dame Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Community Chapel — 0.9 mi away
- Aletheia Student Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0 mi away
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- Grace Christian Church — 21.6 mi away in Le Roy, MN