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present state as of November 2026; founding not reached
First Baptist Church stands on the town's present roll at 407 West Elm Street; no founding date, building course, or affiliation for it was found in any record reached. The town's "Places of Worship" list gives "First Baptist Church — 407 West Elm Street, North Liberty, IN — 574-656-3114," and the town's 2015 comprehensive plan, at snippet strength, lists the church at the same address among the town's institutional uses; a 2013 obituary names a member of "the First Baptist Church in North Liberty" and directs donations to its post office box. One carrier conflict prints whole: a map listing gives the church's phone as 574-656-4537 against the town list's 574-656-3114; the address agrees across carriers and the phone does not. The historic test is a clean negative at first-hand-read strength: Chapman names no Baptist church in Liberty Township, in town or country, in 1880; Howard names none in 1907; Polk counts only Methodist and Advent churches in the village in 1880–81. The congregation is real and present; its history — when it was founded, what body it belongs to (American Baptist, Southern Baptist, independent, or another), and what buildings it has kept — banks as a named gap (G-RL-9), its settlers the congregation's own history, the Baptist association records, and the gazetteer run read decade by decade at the North Liberty entry.