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: +14176783774 · Website: https://www.fbcaurora.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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