First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Emerson, IA 51533. It is one of 6 churches in Emerson.
Emerson, IA, 51533First 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 7.0 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: 39.8%
- Social Isolation: 30.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Citylight Southwest Iowa — 0 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wales United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Champion Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
- Hawthorne Church — 3.6 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- Oaks Church — 4.8 mi away
- Strahan United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 8 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Henderson, IA
- Henderson Christian Church — 8.5 mi away in Henderson, IA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Presbyterian Church — 8.7 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- First Baptist Church — 9.3 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- Grace Baptist Church — 9.3 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- First Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in Malvern, IA
- First Baptist Church — 17.6 mi away in Shenandoah, IA