First Church of the Nazarene
First Church of the Nazarene is a church at 701 Ellis Avenue in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa.
701 Ellis Avenue, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Website: http://www.facebook.com/arcadesalvacioniowa
First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 100 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Iowa — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Church of the Nazarene
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Child Poverty: 39.4% (23.1–55.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (18.3–37.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.9–13.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near First Church of the Nazarene
- Evangelistic Foursquare Church — 0.2 mi away
- Davis Street Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Plymouth Congergational United Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jesus is the Answer Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Willard Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Pentecostal Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- FPAG — 0.6 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Trinity Church of the Nazarene — 3.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 14.8 mi away in Fremont, IA
- Church of the Nazarene — 17.1 mi away in Bloomfield, IA
- Grace Pointe Church of the Nazarene — 18 mi away in Bloomfield, IA
- Wesleyan Church — 22.5 mi away in Oskaloosa, IA