Straitgate Church
Straitgate Church is a Evangelical church at 638 East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, MN 55404. It is one of 459 churches in Minneapolis, and one of 3 Evangelical congregations in the city.
The purpose of everything the church does is to make the mission of the Lord our mission.
Since its inception in 1980, in which a handful of workers were led of the Lord to come together to provide a Sunday School for thirty-four inner-city children who had been excluded from another church and placed on a “waiting list,” the Straitgate Church has been given a unique mission characterized by a place, a people, a purpose, and a principle.
638 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404Website: https://www.straitgate.org/
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The community around Straitgate Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (18.3–41.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 23.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 16.8% (9.2–24.5%)
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (9.0–19.2%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Minneapolis city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 2,358 residents.
Churches near Straitgate Church
- St Paul's Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Centro Cristiano De Minneapolis — 0.1 mi away
- The Salvage Yard — 0.1 mi away
- The Greenhouse — 0.1 mi away
- Inner City Church of Minneapolis — 0.1 mi away
- ICCM Life Center — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Colportage Services — 0.2 mi away
- Epiphany Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mindekirken — 0.3 mi away