Grace Lutheran Church

Grace Lutheran Church is a church at 900 9th Ave SW in Bessemer, AL 35022-4528. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.

900 9th Ave SW, Bessemer, AL, 35022-4528

Phone: +12054255145 · Website: https://www.elca-ses.org/congregationdetail/1772803

Grace Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 75 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Alabama — 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 Grace Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

  • Child Poverty: 51.7% (33.0–70.5%)
  • Social Isolation: 40.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 32.2%
  • Diabetes: 21.5%
  • Obesity: 43.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.4% (17.2–35.6%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (1.7–12.0%)

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

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