First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oskaloosa, IA 52577. It is one of 50 churches in Oskaloosa, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Oskaloosa, IA, 52577First 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 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.2%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (10.0–26.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Oskaloosa city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 174 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary Catholic Church, Oskaloosa — 0.1 mi away
- Landmark Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- 4 Real Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
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