First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Independence, IA 50644. It is one of 22 churches in Independence, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1814
Independence, IA, 50644Service times
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 11:30 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (319) 234-1537 · Website: http://firstbaptistwaterloo.org/
Shares a ministry location with Indee Community Bible Church.
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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from FBC Waterloo Iowa's YouTube channel: August 2nd Live Stream (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: 37.4%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Independence city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 238 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Indee Community Bible Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Redeemer Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Water Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Conservative Baptist Church — 8.7 mi away in Jesup, IA
- First Baptist Church — 14.7 mi away in Oelwein, IA
- Faith Baptist Church — 15.1 mi away in Oelwein, IA