Grace Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, CA 94306. It is one of 55 churches in Palo Alto, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Grace Lutheran Church is called to be an inviting and diverse Christian community, embracing our Lutheran tradition in ways that are faithful and innovative, that makes disciples through worship, education, and service to all creation.
3149 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94306Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: (650) 494-1212 · Website: https://gracepa.org/
Grace Lutheran Church 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.
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Upcoming events at Grace Lutheran Church
- Tue, Sep 22 · 7 AM: Men's Breakfast — Palo Alto Cafe, 2675 Middlefield Rd , Palo Alto, CA 94306
- Wed, Sep 23 · 7 PM: Choir Rehearsal
- Wed, Sep 23 · 7 PM: Youth Group — Grace Lutheran Church
- Sat, Oct 3 · 7 PM: Women's Night Out — Emmaus Room, 3149 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2902
- Sun, Oct 4 · 8:30 AM: Worship — Sanctuary, 3149 Waverley Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2902
From Grace Lutheran Church's public calendar (https://gracepa.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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Latest from Grace Lutheran Church - Palo Alto, CA's YouTube channel: Sunday, September 13th, 2026 at 10:45 am (all videos).
The community around Grace Lutheran 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here were born in another country. That is 2,300 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: 35.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Palo Alto city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 1,953 residents.
Churches near Grace Lutheran Church
- Christian Science Churches and Reading Rooms — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of the Rosary — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Palo Alto Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Trinity Silicon Valley — 0.5 mi away
- Unity Palo Alto Spiritual Center — 0.5 mi away
- Peninsula Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- University African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Mountain View, CA
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 3.2 mi away in Mountain View, CA
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