Good News Bible Church
Good News Bible Church is a Baptist church at 845 Pepperwood Ln in Iowa City, IA 52240-7005. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Good News strongly emphasizes our Lord’s command to “make disciples of all nations”.
Good News Bible Church began in 1973 as an evangelical alternative for the Iowa City, IA community.
Serving since 1973
845 Pepperwood Ln, Iowa City, IA, 52240-7005Service times
- Wednesday 10:30am · mornings
Phone: +13193543331 · Website: https://www.goodnewsiowacity.com/
Good News Bible 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.
Ministries at Good News Bible Church
- Missions Committee
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The community around Good News Bible Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (2.7–15.6%)
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (5.0–19.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good News Bible Church
- Parkview Church Ic Hope — 0.1 mi away
- Purpose Place Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Voice Of Christ Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Faith United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Foursquare Gospel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.8 mi away
- Kirkwood Avenue Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- All Nations Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Crosspoint Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Coralville, IA