First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 421 Park Avenue in Omaha, NE 68131. It is one of 582 churches in Omaha, and one of 69 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1858
421 Park Avenue, Omaha, NE, 68131Phone: (402) 345-5009 · Website: https://www.omahafbc.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 295 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Nebraska — 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.
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.2% (15.7–36.7%)
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.2%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Omaha city is served by 376 churches — about one congregation for every 1,277 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Unitarian Church of Omaha — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Omaha — 0.4 mi away
- Redeeming the Time Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Light of the World Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Beautiful Gate — 0.5 mi away
- First Central Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Citylight Mosaic Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Matthew Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Freeway Ministries Omaha — 1 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away