First Church of Christ
First Church of Christ is a church in Akron, IA 51001. It is one of 8 churches in Akron.
Akron, IA, 51001First Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 161 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Iowa — 9,607 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around First Church of Christ
It takes 5.9 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. 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: 36.6%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church of Christ
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Horizons United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Creek Church — 4.7 mi away
- Westfield Congregational Church — 5.3 mi away in Westfield, IA
- Pleasant Hill Chapel — 7.5 mi away
- Big Springs Baptist Church — 8.1 mi away in Alcester, SD
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