First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harlan, IA 51537. It is one of 22 churches in Harlan, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Harlan, IA, 51537Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
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
It takes 2.8 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, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 37.9%
- Social Isolation: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Harlan Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christs Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Michaels Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Family Church — 0.4 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Harlan First & Monroe Chapel Global Methodist Churches — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 12.9 mi away in Walnut, IA
- First Baptist Church — 14.4 mi away in Elk Horn, IA