First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 201 S Jefferson Ave in Aurora, MO 65605-1607. It is one of 33 churches in Aurora, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our Mission is to Love God, Love People, Light the World.
The First Baptist Church of Aurora, Missouri was organized in November of 1870 at the Liberty School House just northwest of town.
Serving since 1870
201 S Jefferson Ave, Aurora, MO, 65605-1607Service times
- Thursday 8am
Phone: (417) 678-3774 · Website: https://www.fbcaurora.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,663 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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
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: 41.3%
- Child Poverty: 36.8% (18.6–54.9%)
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (10.3–23.3%)
- Depression: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (11.1–25.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.2–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Engage Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Awaken Church — 0.4 mi away
- faith and hope free will — 0.6 mi away
- Aurora Baptist Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Wilson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Aurora Living Water Church of the Nazarene — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Aurora Baptist Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Wilson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Verona Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Verona, MO
- Country Chapel Free Will Baptist — 4.4 mi away in Marionville, MO