First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 320 Covington in Waterloo, IL 62298-3229. It is one of 26 churches in Waterloo, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Here at First Baptist Church, God is forming a family…a family of diverse individuals, young and old, rich and poor, healthy and weak…who together have bought passage on a ship that is heading into the sunrise of God’s love. For us, family means mutual support…unconditional love…ready forgiveness.

320 Covington, Waterloo, IL, 62298-3229

Phone: (618) 939-9500 · Website: https://www.fbcwaterloo.org/

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 30.8%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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