First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shenandoah, IA 51601. It is one of 25 churches in Shenandoah, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shenandoah, IA, 51601Website: http://www.abc-usa.org/
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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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: 43.7%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (14.5–29.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.6–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shenandoah Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginnings Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Liberty Baptist Church — 17.5 mi away in Sidney, IA
- Clarinda First Baptist Church — 17.6 mi away in Clarinda, IA
- First Baptist Church — 17.6 mi away in Emerson, IA