Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin
Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin is a Lutheran church at S5755B County Road N in Viroqua, WI 54665. It is one of 21 churches in Viroqua, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
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
S5755B County Road N, Viroqua, WI, 54665Phone: (608) 689-2757 · Website: https://www.badaxechurch.com/
Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin 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.
Ministries at Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin
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Latest from Bad Axe Church's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026, Service (Romans 13:1-7) (all videos).
The community around Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin
It takes 4.9 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 nearly a quarter 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: 39.5%
- Social Isolation: 28.8%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Child Poverty: 22.6% (13.1–32.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (8.4–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin
- Bad Axe Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- North West Prairie Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 4.3 mi away
- New Hope Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in De Soto, WI
- South West Prairie Lutheran Church — 5.4 mi away
- Liberty Pole United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Desoto, WI
- Freeman Lutheran Church — 7 mi away in Freeman, WI
- St James Church — 7.2 mi away in Ferryville, WI
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 8.1 mi away
- Grace Church — 8.1 mi away
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- Zion Lutheran Church — 4.3 mi away
- South West Prairie Lutheran Church — 5.4 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 8.1 mi away
- Good Shepard Lutheran Church — 8.4 mi away
- English Lutheran Church — 9 mi away