Bad Axe Lutheran Church
Bad Axe Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in De Soto, WI. It is one of 2 churches in De Soto.
To win souls for Christ by the preaching of the word, and by personal example and witnessing, and to strengthen Believers by Christian fellowship and teaching
Bad Axe Church has seen much change over the years. While no longer Lutheran; it was initially organized as Bad Axe Lutheran Church in 1869 and the congregation was primarily made up of Norwegians who settled in the area.
Serving since 1869
De Soto, WIPhone: (608) 689-2757 · Website: http://badaxechurch.com
Bad Axe Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,319 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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.
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Latest from Bad Axe Church's YouTube channel: September 6, 2026, Service (Philippians 2:19-30) (all videos).
The community around Bad Axe Lutheran Church
It takes 5.6 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 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
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- Grace United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in New Albin, IA
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- St. Peter's Christian Community Church — 6.1 mi away in New Albin, IA
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