Ottumwa Church of Christ

Ottumwa Church of Christ is a church at 317 West Finley Avenue in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa.

317 West Finley Avenue, Ottumwa, IA, 52501

Ottumwa Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 161 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Iowa — 9,607 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.

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The community around Ottumwa Church of Christ

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: 38.5% (23.2–54.1%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.7% (17.8–35.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (1.8–12.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.

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