First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Ackley, IA 50601. It is one of 10 churches in Ackley, and one of 2 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
Ackley, IA, 50601First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 287 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Iowa — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around First Presbyterian Church
It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Presbyterian Church
- Our Saviour's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's United Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Freisland Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away
- Ackley Christian Reformed Church — 4 mi away
- East Friesland Church — 5 mi away
- Austinville Christian Reformed Church — 5.1 mi away in Austinville, IA
- Saint Peter's Church — 5.2 mi away
- Washington Reformed Church — 6.5 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
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- First Presbyterian Church — 19.1 mi away in Grundy Center, IA
- Bethany Presbyterian Church — 19.3 mi away in Grundy Center, IA