Where is First Covenant Church located?

First Covenant Church is at 201 Avenue, IA, 50501, Fort Dodge, IA, 50501.

What time are services at First Covenant Church?

First Covenant Church meets Sunday at 9:15am (School -). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Covenant Church?

First Covenant Church in Fort Dodge, IA is a Lutheran church.

First Covenant Church

First Covenant Church is a Lutheran church at 201 Avenue, IA, 50501 in Fort Dodge, IA 50501. It is one of 59 churches in Fort Dodge.

First Covenant Church of Fort Dodge, Iowa began ministering to the local community in the late 19th century, under the name Swedish Mission church.

201 Avenue, IA, 50501, Fort Dodge, IA, 50501

Service times

Sunday 9:15am · School -

Phone: (515) 955-3528 · Website: http://firstcovfortdodge.org/

First Covenant 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 First Covenant Church

Covenant World Relief
GriefShare
Men's Ministry
Women's Ministry
Youth Ministry

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The community around First Covenant 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 more than 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: 43.3%
Social Isolation: 37.3%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
Food Insecurity: 19.8%
Poverty Rate: 19.2% (10.1–28.3%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Fort Dodge city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.

Churches near First Covenant Church

Church of Christ West Side — 0.2 mi away
Prairie Lakes Church — 0.4 mi away
First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
Riverside United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Full Gospel Lighthouse Church — 0.6 mi away
Triumphant Church — 0.7 mi away
Coppin Chapel - African Methodist Episcopal — 1 mi away
Agape Kdm Church — 1 mi away
Harvest Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
Grace Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

Grace Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
Saint Olaf Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away

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