First United Presbyterian Church
First United Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in State Center, IA 50247. It is one of 7 churches in State Center.
State Center, IA, 50247First United 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 United 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. 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: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 29.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Presbyterian Church
- United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- St John Evangelical Lutheran Church Lcms — 3.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 3.6 mi away
- New Horizons United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Melbourne, IA
- Saint John United Church of Christ — 6 mi away in Melbourne, IA
- Lamoille Congregational Church — 6.7 mi away in Marshalltown, IA
- Clemons United Church of Christ — 6.9 mi away in Clemons, IA
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Presbyterian Church — 11.4 mi away in Albion, IA
- First Presbyterian Church — 13.2 mi away in Marshalltown, IA
- First Presbyterian Church — 14.8 mi away in Maxwell, IA
- Central Presbyterian Church — 14.8 mi away in Nevada, IA
- McCallsburg Presbyterian Church — 15.4 mi away in McCallsburg, IA