The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon
The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 1153 E Madison Ave in El Cajon, CA 92021-6307. It is one of 130 churches in El Cajon, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
Welcome Ministry proclaims the hope and love of a gracious God to all people, especially the refugee and the homeless.
Welcome Ministry of El Cajon/East County, Inc. is an ecumenical outreach of worship, mercy, and justice to the immigrant, refugees and unsheltered of the East County community of San Diego County, California.
Serving since 2016
1153 E Madison Ave, El Cajon, CA, 92021-6307Service times
- Wednesday 10am
Phone: (619) 444-8212 · Website: https://welcomeministryec.org/
The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 880 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 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 The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon
- Food pantry
- Laundry ministry
- Advocacy
- Conversation group
- Worship service
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The community around The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 41.5% (24.5–58.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (19.0–44.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (3.2–11.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Welcome Ministries of El Cajon
- Voices of Victory Christian Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church of El Cajon — 0.4 mi away
- The Salvation Army El Cajon Corps — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia de Cristo Ministerios de El Cajon — 0.5 mi away
- Assembly of God Church Central — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Raphael Orthodox Church - UAOC — 0.6 mi away
- Newbreak East County — 0.6 mi away
- Eastside Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Transformed Life Center — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Morning Star Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Lakeside, CA
- Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away in La Mesa, CA
- Saint Lukes Lutheran Church — 4.2 mi away in La Mesa, CA
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