First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 N Clinton St in Iowa City, IA 52245-6219. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
A few Baptists, under the leadership of the Rev. Mr. George W. Freeman, met in the old stone schoolhouse, which stood on the southeast corner of Georgia Avenue and First Street S.E. to organize the First Baptist Church.
Part of American Baptist Women’s Fellowship
500 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA, 52245-6219Service times
- Tuesday 7:30am · morning
Phone: (319) 338-7995 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistmc.com/
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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 66.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (3.3–10.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- One Ancient Hope Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Friends Meeting — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Community Church - Downtown Iowa City — 0.2 mi away
- Old Brick Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Collective — 0.3 mi away
- Chinese Evangelical Church in Iowa City (CECIIC) — 0.3 mi away
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Newman Catholic Student Center — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Crosspoint Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Coralville, IA
- Good News Bible Church — 2 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- All Nations Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away