St. Edward Catholic Church
St. Edward Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 104 West Union Street in Afton, IA 50830. It is one of 5 churches in Afton.
104 West Union Street, Afton, IA, 50830Service times
- Sunday 10:45am · Sunday Mass
- Tuesday 8:30am · Tuesday Mass
St. Edward Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 443 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Iowa — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Edward Catholic Church
It takes 7.1 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 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 36.7%
- Social Isolation: 31.0%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (3.3–10.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Edward Catholic Church
- United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Immanuel Church — 4.5 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Arispe, IA
- Beulah Church — 6.7 mi away
- Dodge Center Church — 6.7 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 7.3 mi away in Creston, IA
- Church of Christ — 8.4 mi away in Creston, IA
- Pleasant Valley Church — 8.5 mi away
- Creston Central Church — 8.5 mi away in Creston, IA
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