First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 434 Baltimore Street in Waterloo, IA 50701. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1814
434 Baltimore Street, Waterloo, IA, 50701Service times
Sunday, May 11, 10:15 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (319) 234-1537 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistwaterloo.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,418 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.
Find First Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from FBC Waterloo Iowa's YouTube channel: September 13th Live Stream (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.6%
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (17.3–38.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (2.3–19.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (10.2–43.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.3–17.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Bethel Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waterloo Gospel Hall — 0.2 mi away
- Koinonia Ministries Full Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iowa United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- UCC Media — 0.4 mi away
- Waterloo Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Koinonia Ministries Full Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Waterloo Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 1.1 mi away