First Southern Baptist Church
First Southern Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newton, IA 50208. It is one of 45 churches in Newton, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newton, IA, 50208First Southern 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 Southern Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Child Poverty: 30.3% (19.6–41.5%)
- Social Isolation: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newton city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 473 residents.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church
- Cornerstone Bible Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Creation Church - Newton — 0.5 mi away
- Foursquare Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Reformed Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Creation Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Newton Baptist Temple — 1.2 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 10.5 mi away in Colfax, IA
- First Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Colfax, IA