Community Lutheran Church
Community Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 654-656 North Lotus Avenue in Chicago, IL 60644. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 125 Lutheran congregations in the city.
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654-656 North Lotus Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60644Shares a ministry location with Praise Temple of Restoration.
Community 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 Community Lutheran 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
- Unemployment: 23.5% (15.8–31.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (12.7–35.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.6–21.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Community Lutheran Church
- Praise Temple of Restoration — 0 mi away
- Austin Baptist United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Rhema Word Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Destiny Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Inspirational Deliverance Center Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Unity Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of Love Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- SQUAD Community Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Austin Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1 mi away