First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 518 North Franklin Avenue in Madison, WI 53705. It is one of 203 churches in Madison, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Baptist Church of Madison is to follow Jesus by doing justice, loving people, and advocating for equity.
First Baptist Church is proud of its history as being one of the earliest Baptist churches in the country to openly declare itself, by an overwhelming congregational vote in 1994, welcoming and affirming of all persons without regard to sexual or gender identity
Wheelchair accessible
518 North Franklin Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10:30am · Office Hours -
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am · Office Hours -
Phone: (608) 233-1880 · Website: https://firstbaptistmadison.org/
Shares a ministry location with Madison Seventh Day Baptist.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 421 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Wisconsin — 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Campus Ministry
- Homeless Shelter Meals
- English Classes
- AIDS Orphan Education
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Latest from First Baptist Church of Madison's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 24.2%
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
- Depression: 26.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Madison city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 2,880 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Madison Seventh Day Baptist — 0 mi away
- First Unitarian Society — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano — 0.5 mi away
- Geneva Campus Church — 0.5 mi away
- Madison Immanuel Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Lutheran Church Lcms — 0.9 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.9 mi away
- the church in Madison — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Isaiah Church — 1.2 mi away
- Red Village Church — 1.7 mi away
- Midvale Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Heritage Congregational Church — 2.5 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away