Deaconess Community
Deaconess Community is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 8765 W Higgins Rd in Chicago, IL 60631-2702. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 4 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
We long for and work towards impacting this broken and beautiful world through our radical diaconal leadership, prophetic ministry on the margins, and accountable relationship within our community.
We are an intentional community of women deacons on the roster of Word and Service in the ELCA and diaconal ministers in the ELCIC.
8765 W Higgins Rd, Chicago, IL, 60631-2702Phone: (773) 380-1705 · Website: https://deaconesscommunity.org/
Deaconess Community 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 Deaconess Community
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly half of the people here were born in another country. 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: 32.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.2–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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