First Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Shelby, IA 51570. It is one of 2 churches in Shelby.

Shelby, IA, 51570

First Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 287 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Iowa — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.

Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.

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The community around First Presbyterian Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 32.5%
  • Obesity: 37.8%

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

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