Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf
Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf is a Lutheran church at 7956 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 125 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are dedicated to educating our community about deaf culture and filling our communities with the goodness of God through service.
Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf is a predominately African American, Deaf and hard of hearing Church that welcomes all people to openly learn about, worship, and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Services in American Sign Language
7956 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL, 60619Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · night
Phone: (773) 723-3737 · Website: http://elcofthedeaf.weebly.com/
Shares a ministry location with Greater Faith Ministries International.
Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf 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 Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 18.7% (8.7–28.8%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (12.5–37.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
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