San Marcos Lutheran Church
San Marcos Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 3419 Grand Ave in San Marcos, CA 92078-2330. It is one of 56 churches in San Marcos, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Membership at SMLC is open to any baptized person—if you haven't been baptized and would like to be, contact Pastor Casey!
Wheelchair accessible
3419 Grand Ave, San Marcos, CA, 92078-2330Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (760) 727-1509 · Website: https://sanmarcoslutheran.org/
San Marcos 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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The community around San Marcos Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (0.1–17.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (9.0–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Churches near San Marcos Lutheran Church
- Awaken San Marcos Campus — 0.4 mi away
- Community Lutheran Church of San Marcos — 0.6 mi away
- Movement Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jesus La Roca — 0.6 mi away
- Church Dynamics — 0.6 mi away
- Palomar Korean Church (PKC): Encounter College EM — 0.7 mi away
- Apostolic Assembly of the Faith In Christ Jesus — 0.8 mi away
- River Family Church — 0.8 mi away in Vista, CA
- Faith Chapel Pentecostal Church — 0.9 mi away in Vista, CA
- North Hills Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away in Vista, CA
- First Lutheran Church — 5.1 mi away in Vista, CA
- Redeemer by the Sea Lutheran Church — 5.2 mi away in Carlsbad, CA
- Faith Lutheran Church of Vista — 5.2 mi away in Vista, CA
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 5.7 mi away in Escondido, CA
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