Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is a church in Elma, IA 50628. It is one of 6 churches in Elma.
Elma, IA, 50628Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 443 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Iowa — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
It takes 7.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 39.1%
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.3–22.6%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
- Holy Cross Church — 4.9 mi away in Cresco, IA
- St Peter's Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 6.9 mi away
- Elma United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away
- Saint Bernard Catholic Church — 7.3 mi away in Alta Vista, IA
- Holy Rosary Cluster — 7.4 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 7.4 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 7.4 mi away in Alta Vista, IA
- Saude Lutheran Church — 7.7 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 8 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
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- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 7.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 10.9 mi away in Protivin, IA
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 11.6 mi away in North Washington, IA
- Notre Dame Catholic Church — 12.1 mi away in Cresco, IA