St Mark Lutheran Church
St Mark Lutheran Church is a church at 655 E 88th St in Chicago, IL 60619-6805. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago.
655 E 88th St, Chicago, IL, 60619-6805Phone: (773) 723-2246 · Website: http://www.stmarklcchicago.com/
St Mark 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 St Mark 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 18.4% (8.7–28.1%)
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (16.5–41.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Mark Lutheran Church
- New Bethlehem #4 MB Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pure In Heart M.B.C — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain Of Fire and Miracles Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Basil Catholic Mission — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ - South Chicago, IL — 0.4 mi away
- Evangelistic Crusaders Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chatham Fields Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ephphatha Lutheran Church of the Deaf — 1.1 mi away
- Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away