Zion American Lutheran Church
Zion American Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Oelwein, IA 50662. It is one of 15 churches in Oelwein, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Oelwein, IA, 50662Shares a ministry location with Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Zion American 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 Zion American Lutheran Church
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 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: 41.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (4.1–13.0%)
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
- Child Poverty: 26.2% (13.9–39.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (12.2–25.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- 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 Zion American Lutheran Church
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Christ United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 6.8 mi away in Maynard, IA
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away in Fairbank, IA
- Saint Peters Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away in Westgate, IA
- Lord of the Harvest Lutheran Church — 7.8 mi away in Fairbank, IA