First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 53 East Main Street in Peru, IN 46970. It is one of 45 churches in Peru, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
53 East Main Street, Peru, IN, 46970Service times
- Thursday 6pm
Phone: (765) 473-7503 · Website: http://perufirstbaptist.org/
Shares a ministry location with Heartland Assembly.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Food Assistance
- Meals for the Needy
- Clothing and Home Goods
- Pregnancy Support
- Food Distribution
- Christian Literature
- Missions Support
- Missionary Support
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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: 46.2%
- Child Poverty: 40.0% (22.8–57.2%)
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (14.9–34.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (2.8–18.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peru city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 315 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Heartland Assembly — 0 mi away
- Chapel of Praise — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Church of Peru Indiana — 0.1 mi away
- First Brethren Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church SBC — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Story Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wayman AME Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church SBC — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oakdale Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Bunker Hill, IN
- Denver Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Denver, IN