Salem Lutheran Church
Salem Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 602 West Townline Street in Creston, IA 50801. It is one of 22 churches in Creston, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.
Following Jesus, Sharing Compassion, Covered by Grace
Salem Lutheran Church is formed in the waters of Christian Baptism to be a foundation of life to all who gather here, overflowing into a river of compassion for the world.
602 West Townline Street, Creston, IA, 50801Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: +1-641-782-2920 · Website: https://salemluth.net/
Salem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,755 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 Salem Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of 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: 36.6%
- Social Isolation: 31.4%
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (9.7–40.1%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.8–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Creston city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 205 residents.
Churches near Salem Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Crest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Spirit Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- UCC Congregational Church — 0.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 17.1 mi away in Greenfield, IA
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 18.3 mi away in Fontanelle, IA
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 19.9 mi away in Corning, IA