First Church of Christ
First Church of Christ is a church in Cherokee, IA 51012. It is one of 14 churches in Cherokee.
Cherokee, IA, 51012First Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 180 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Iowa — 10,488 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
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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 43.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.7% (13.6–35.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Food Insecurity: 17.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church of Christ
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cross Roads Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith in Christ Fellowship Church — 1.6 mi away
- Meriden Evangelical Free Church — 5 mi away in Meriden, IA
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Alta Church of Christ — 13.5 mi away in Alta, IA
- Northwest Christian Church — 13.5 mi away in Alta, IA
- Church of Christ — 15 mi away in Sutherland, IA
- Church of Christ — 19.5 mi away in Storm Lake, IA
- Church of Christ — 22.8 mi away in Correctionville, IA