First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mediapolis, IA 52637. It is one of 10 churches in Mediapolis.
Mediapolis, IA, 52637First 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
It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 31.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Mediapolis Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mediapolis Global Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Community Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Baptist Church (Sperry, Iowa) — 3.9 mi away in Sperry, IA
- Old Stone Church — 3.9 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 4.5 mi away
- Old Swedish Church — 4.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Church (Sperry, Iowa) — 3.9 mi away in Sperry, IA
- First Baptist Church — 8.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 11.4 mi away in Wapello, IA
- Sunnyside Avenue Baptist Church — 12 mi away in Burlington, IA
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 12.4 mi away in Wapello, IA