First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fort Dodge, IA 50501. It is one of 59 churches in Fort Dodge, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to build God’s kingdom in quantity and quality.
The First Baptist congregation has been serving the Fort Dodge community for over 150 years!
Fort Dodge, IA, 50501Service times
- Tuesday 10am
Phone: (515) 573-3517 · Website: https://firstbaptistfortdodge.wordpress.com/
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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (10.5–31.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.6–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fort Dodge city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Damascus Road — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Corpus Christi Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Rolling Hills Community Church — 2 mi away