Saint Stephens Lutheran Church

Saint Stephens Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Santa Cruz, CA 95062. It is one of 62 churches in Santa Cruz, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Santa Cruz, CA, 95062

Saint Stephens Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 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 Saint Stephens 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up 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.

  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Child Poverty: 26.8% (8.2–45.4%)
  • Depression: 23.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
  • Unemployment: 6.1% (2.0–10.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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