Jehovahs Witnesses
Jehovahs Witnesses is a Jehovahs Witness church in Oelwein, IA 50662. It is one of 15 churches in Oelwein.
Oelwein, IA, 50662Jehovahs Witnesses is part of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible Student movement family of churches in The American Church Story. 68 congregations of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible Student movement family gather across Iowa — 1,963 across the United States on The Church Map.
Jehovah's Witnesses and the related Bible Student groups hold that God's name is Jehovah, that Christ is God's first creation rather than God the Son, and that God's kingdom is a literal government soon to rule the earth. They do not present themselves as one denomination among others, and trinitarian churches do not receive them as one. Both of those are recorded here rather than resolved.
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The community around Jehovahs Witnesses
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,100 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: 41.1%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (4.1–12.9%)
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.7% (13.5–39.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (12.0–24.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Oelwein city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 507 residents.
Churches near Jehovahs Witnesses
- Christ United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion American Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ - West Side — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Antioch Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.9 mi away