Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 8000 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 14 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.
The mission of St. James Community Church is to:LOVE all people.SERVE all people.SHARE the Word of Godwith all people.
8000 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Website: http://loveserveshare.org/
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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 James Evangelical Lutheran Church
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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 25.1%
- Unemployment: 20.0% (13.2–26.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
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.
Churches near Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Carter Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Glory Temple Kingdom Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Full Life Church Chicago — 0.2 mi away
- The People Of The Name Apostolic Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Heart of the Lamb Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Institutional AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crerar Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Goshen SDA Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendly Temple Praise Team - Giving God The Highest Praise — 0.3 mi away
- Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf — 0.3 mi away
- Chatham Fields Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Living Water M.b Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away