First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oelwein, IA 50662. It is one of 15 churches in Oelwein, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Oelwein, IA, 50662Website: http://fbcoelwein.weebly.com/
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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (4.4–13.6%)
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Child Poverty: 27.8% (15.0–41.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (12.8–26.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Oelwein city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 507 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Zion American Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Antioch Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ - West Side — 0.7 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 14.4 mi away in Independence, IA
- Freedom Baptist Church — 14.6 mi away in Independence, IA
- First Baptist Church — 14.7 mi away in Independence, IA
- First Baptist Church — 14.8 mi away in Dunkerton, IA