Zion Lutheran Church
Zion Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1004 1st Ave, IA, 51442 in Denison, IA 51442. It is one of 19 churches in Denison, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We Tell. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Zion Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. We believe that God has revealed Himself through His Son, Jesus, by entering into creation and teaching humanity His Word and His Way.
1004 1st Ave, IA, 51442, Denison, IA, 51442Phone: (712) 263-2235 · Website: http://www.ziondenison.org/
Shares a ministry location with Amigos en Cristo Church.
Zion 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.
Ministries at Zion Lutheran Church
- Sunday School
- Men's Bible Study
- Women's Bible Study
- Ground Zero
- Confirmation
- Ladies' Bible Study
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Latest from Zion Denison's YouTube channel: July 26, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Zion 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.5%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Child Poverty: 28.6% (10.0–47.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (11.7–30.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.3–16.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Denison city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 680 residents.
Churches near Zion Lutheran Church
- Amigos en Cristo Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Journey Church — 0.3 mi away
- Denison Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pioneer Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Fuente De Vida — 0.4 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Savior Church — 1.2 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 5.9 mi away in Deloit, IA
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 9.2 mi away in Dow City, IA
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 10.7 mi away in Schleswig, IA