Elma United Methodist Church
Elma United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Elma, IA 50628. It is one of 6 churches in Elma.
Elma, IA, 50628Elma United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Elma United Methodist Church
It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, 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: 40.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (9.6–25.6%)
- Social Isolation: 31.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elma United Methodist Church
- St Peter's Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Rosary Cluster — 0.5 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Bernard Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away in Alta Vista, IA
- Zion Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away in Alta Vista, IA
- Saint Cecilia Church — 4.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 5.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church — 6.9 mi away
- Saratoga Church — 8.6 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 9 mi away in North Washington, IA
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Riceville, IA
- United Methodist Church — 14.1 mi away in New Hampton, IA
- United Methodist Church — 16 mi away in Lime Springs, IA
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 17.2 mi away in Charles City, IA
- Bonair Methodist Church — 17.2 mi away