Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church

Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 8000 South Aberdeen Street in Chicago, IL 60620. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 14 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.

8000 South Aberdeen Street, Chicago, IL, 60620

Shares a ministry location with St Michael's House of Prayer.

Saint Matthew 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 Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third have no one they feel they can count on, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 39.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
  • Unemployment: 22.2% (11.5–33.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
  • Diabetes: 20.5%
  • Obesity: 43.6%
  • Social Isolation: 39.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.2% (12.0–34.3%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 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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