Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Blue Island, IL 60406. It is one of 32 churches in Blue Island, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Blue Island, IL, 60406Website: https://www.facebook.com/SalemChurch2022/
Shares a ministry location with Nueva Vida Blue Island.
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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 Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (3.4–13.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (7.2–16.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Blue Island city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 975 residents.
Churches near Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Nueva Vida Blue Island — 0 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Memorial United Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Pentecostal Church Blue Island — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Aidan's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Casa De Oracion Vida, Esperanza, Y Verdad — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul Slovak Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Benedict Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul Slovak Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Philip Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away in Calumet Park, IL
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away in Robbins, IL
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