First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 728 Blondeau Street in Keokuk, IA 52632. It is one of 44 churches in Keokuk, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
728 Blondeau Street, Keokuk, IA, 52632Service times
- Thursday 9am · of th
- Sunday 10am
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.2%
- Child Poverty: 32.0% (14.3–49.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (12.4–27.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.5–12.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Keokuk city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 360 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Faith United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Deliverance Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of All Saints — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bel Air Baptist Church — 1 mi away