Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 8808 S Western Ave in Los Angeles, CA 90047-3328. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
8808 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90047-3328Phone: +13237532251 · Website: https://medhani-alem-orthodox-church-ca.hub.biz
Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 60 congregations of the Oriental Orthodox family gather across California — 351 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syriac churches have held the faith under pressure longer than almost anyone — Ethiopia has worshiped Christ continuously since the fourth century, and the Armenian church has buried martyrs in nearly every generation since. Their endurance is a gift to a church that has grown used to comfort.
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The community around Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (5.2–12.0%)
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (7.4–40.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
- Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra Miel Los Angeles — 0.1 mi away
- St. Jude Spiritual Churches of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Southside Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Pilgrim Temple's very own Bible Study. — 0.2 mi away
- Life Deliverance Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- God's House of Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
- Imani Christian Cathedral - Los Angeles — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Twentythird Church of Christ Scientist — 0.5 mi away
- The Los Angeles Dominion Power Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
More Oriental Orthodox churches nearby
- Holy Annunciation Coptic Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away in Inglewood, CA
- Hamere Nohe Kidane Mihret Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 2.8 mi away in Inglewood, CA
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