Plymouth Congergational United Church
Plymouth Congergational United Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 101 North Ransom Street in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa.
Serving since 1957 · Services in Spanish
101 North Ransom Street, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Website: http://www.ucc.org
Plymouth Congergational United Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 106 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Iowa — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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Upcoming events at Plymouth Congergational United Church
- Thu, Aug 6 · 3:30 PM: Fostering Vitality: Liturgical Resources for a Faithful & Vital Church — Zoom
- Tue, Aug 11 · 4 PM: Be Prophetic, Not Partisan: Election Engagement 101 for Congregations — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 12 · 1 PM: Can Advocacy with Congress Still Accomplish Anything? — Zoom
- Thu, Aug 13 · 3:30 PM: Economic Justice: Love Our Laborers as Yourself — Zoom
- Wed, Aug 19 · 3 PM: Money, Ministry, and Meaning: Financial Wellness as an Act of Pastoral Self-care — Zoom
From Plymouth Congergational United Church's public calendar (http://www.ucc.org). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Plymouth Congergational United Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 40.4% (24.4–56.4%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (18.4–36.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.9–13.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Plymouth Congergational United Church
- Davis Street Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Evangelistic Foursquare Church — 0.2 mi away
- Willard Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ottumwa Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- FPAG — 0.3 mi away
- First Pentecostal Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ottumwa Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Living Hope Bible Church — 11.9 mi away in Eldon, IA
- St. Paul Congregational United Church of Christ — 23.2 mi away in Oskaloosa, IA