Calvary Lutheran Church

Calvary Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 714 Pearl Street in Sabula, IA 52070.

Welcome to Calvary Lutheran Church, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), faithfully rooted in this community since 1944 .Located in the heart of Sabula, Iowa, Iowa’s only island city, Calvary is a small-town church with a big heart. We’re a community where everyone is welcome, faith is lived out in everyday kindness, and God’s love is shared through worship, service, and fellowship.

714 Pearl Street, Sabula, IA, 52070

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · worship

Website: https://calvarysabula.com/

Calvary Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,905 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.

Ministries at Calvary Lutheran Church

  • Food Pantry

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Latest from Calvary Lutheran Sabula's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship September 13, 2026 Matthew 18:21-35 (all videos).

The community around Calvary Lutheran Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Social Isolation: 32.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
  • Diabetes: 14.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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