First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Marshalltown, IA 50158. It is one of 56 churches in Marshalltown, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Marshalltown, IA, 50158Shares a ministry location with Journey Church.
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 — 71,420 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 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 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Food Insecurity: 17.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marshalltown city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 533 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Journey Church — 0 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Center Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Center Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 17 mi away in Tama, IA