American Lutheran Church
American Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Melvin, IA 51350. It is one of 2 churches in Melvin.
Melvin, IA, 51350American 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 American Lutheran Church
It takes 7.2 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 say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (11.5–36.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near American Lutheran Church
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- Cornerstone United Reformed Church — 7.3 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- Iglesia Reformada de Cristo — 7.3 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 7.5 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- Sanborn Presbyterian Church — 7.5 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- First Reformed Church — 7.5 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 7.7 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- Christian Reformed Church — 7.8 mi away in Sanborn, IA
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 8 mi away in Sanborn, IA
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