Ottumwa Baptist Temple
Ottumwa Baptist Temple is a Baptist church at 238 West Williams Street in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
238 West Williams Street, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Website: https://ottumwabaptisttemple.org/
Ottumwa Baptist Temple 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 Ottumwa Baptist Temple
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than 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: 43.6%
- Child Poverty: 36.8% (21.8–52.2%)
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (17.4–35.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Food Insecurity: 21.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.7–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near Ottumwa Baptist Temple
- Way of Peace Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Ottumwa Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Davis Street Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Plymouth Congergational United Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evangelistic Foursquare Church — 0.4 mi away
- Willard Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ottumwa Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Belen Assembly of God — 0.6 mi away
- Jesus is the Answer Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ottumwa Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Albia Road Southern Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away