First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Chariton, IA 50049. It is one of 32 churches in Chariton, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Led by the Holy Spirit, the mission of First Lutheran Church in Chariton is to be bold in our faith as children of God and share the good news of salvation with all people.
First Lutheran Church and Christ the Servant Lutheran Ministry are communities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a church body of nearly 5 million members.
Part of Southeastern Iowa Synod
Chariton, IA, 50049First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around First Lutheran Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Child Poverty: 26.6% (10.3–43.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.0–29.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Christian Church Disciples of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Chariton Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrews Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Convent — 0.6 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Full Faith Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 13.5 mi away in Melcher-Dallas, IA
- Christ the Servant Lutheran Church — 18.7 mi away in Corydon, IA
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 22.7 mi away in Knoxville, IA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 22.8 mi away in Knoxville, IA