First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3020 E 38th St in Des Moines, IA 50317-3918. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church of Urbandale is an independent, Bible-believing, Baptist church where Jesus is first and people are loved.
3020 E 38th St, Des Moines, IA, 50317-3918Phone: (515) 251-5954 · Website: https://fbcurbandale.com/
Shares a ministry location with New Testament Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,418 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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Latest from First Baptist Church on Vimeo: 09/13/26 Pastor Dan McCoy - Sunday Evening Service (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (1.8–17.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- True Life Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Open Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jubilee Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sheridan Park United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Experience Church — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Des Moines Northeast Branch Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Easton Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Norwoodville Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Anchor Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 2.4 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away