First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Glenwood, IA 51534. It is one of 21 churches in Glenwood, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
First Baptist Church, Council Bluffs is a community of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who are committed to worshipping God together while holding fast to the historic Christian faith, especially as expressed through Baptist principles.
Glenwood, IA, 51534Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · School
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship
- Sunday 9:30am · Schools
Shares a ministry location with First Christian 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Food Pantry
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Latest from First Baptist Church Council Bluffs's YouTube channel: Why do people try to deny God exists? (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: 39.2%
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Glenwood city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 242 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Frontline Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Reconnect: A Christian Community — 0.2 mi away
- Glenwood Evangelical Free Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Common Ground Glenwood — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Plattsmouth, NE
- Living Water Church — 8.8 mi away in Plattsmouth, NE
- Plattsmouth Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Plattsmouth, NE