Ottumwa Church of the Brethren
Ottumwa Church of the Brethren is a Brethren church at 1212 West Williams Street in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa.
1212 West Williams Street, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Ottumwa Church of the Brethren is part of the Anabaptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 25 congregations of the Anabaptist family gather across Iowa — 1,105 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Anabaptists paid with their lives for believers' baptism and freedom of conscience centuries before either was safe to hold, and every church in America now enjoys what they died for. Their disaster-relief crews, arriving quietly after every flood and fire, and their refusal to return violence remain a standing witness to the rest of us.
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The community around Ottumwa Church of the Brethren
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (11.8–24.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
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.
Churches near Ottumwa Church of the Brethren
- Iglesia Evangelica Belen Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Pentecostal Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Ottumwa Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Way of Peace Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Lake Road Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Ottumwa Baptist Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Ottumwa Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Albia Road Southern Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Anabaptist churches nearby
- Mennonite Church — 22.5 mi away in Pulaski, IA
- Pulaski Mennonite Church — 24 mi away in Bloomfield, IA