Bad Axe Lutheran Church
Bad Axe Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at S5755B County Rd N in Viroqua, WI 54665. It is one of 21 churches in Viroqua, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We want to be found faithful until Jesus returns! We invite others to join us in proclaiming the good news that Jesus saves!
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 Rd N, Viroqua, WI, 54665Phone: (608) 689-2757 · Website: https://www.badaxechurch.com/about-us
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.
Ministries at Bad Axe Lutheran Church
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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 Lutheran Church
It takes 4.6 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 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: 38.9%
- Social Isolation: 28.7%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.8–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bad Axe Lutheran Church
- Bad Axe Church - Viroqua, Wisconsin — 1.8 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- North West Prairie Lutheran Church — 4.2 mi away
- New Hope Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in De Soto, WI
- Liberty Pole United Methodist Church — 7 mi away in Desoto, WI
- South West Prairie Lutheran Church — 7.2 mi away
- Grace Church — 7.5 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away
- Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church — 7.8 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall — 8 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Zion Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- South West Prairie Lutheran Church — 7.2 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away
- Good Shepard Lutheran Church — 8 mi away
- English Lutheran Church — 8.5 mi away