Ascension Lutheran Church

Ascension Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Shelby, NC 28150. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.

Shelby, NC, 28150

Website: http://www.ascensionlutheranshelby.com/women-of-the-elca-welca.html

Ascension Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 250 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across North Carolina — 15,755 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.

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The community around Ascension Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 41.4%
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.1–32.9%)
  • Food Insecurity: 22.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Shelby city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 570 residents.

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