Theotokos Unexpected Joy Orthodox Church
Theotokos Unexpected Joy Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 810 West Woodbine Road in Ash Grove, MO 65604. It is one of 17 churches in Ash Grove.
Unexpected Joy is a community of Orthodox Christian believers "working out our salvation" (Philippians 2:12) in Southwest Missouri.
810 West Woodbine Road, Ash Grove, MO, 65604Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (417) 942-0186 · Website: https://unexpectedjoychurch.org/
Theotokos Unexpected Joy Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 27 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Missouri — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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The community around Theotokos Unexpected Joy Orthodox Church
It takes 3.6 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 live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 37.4%
- Social Isolation: 30.8%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.0–15.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Ash Grove city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Theotokos Unexpected Joy Orthodox Church
- Ash Grove United Methodist-presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ash Grove — 0.8 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Freeway Ash Grove — 0.9 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Ash Grove Assembly of God — 1 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Gentral Church — 2.4 mi away
- The Hill Ash Grove — 2.4 mi away
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