Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Jacksonville, IL 62650. It is one of 47 churches in Jacksonville, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Jacksonville, IL, 62650Salem 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.
Ministries at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Swaddling Clothes
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The community around Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.0–29.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.4–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jacksonville city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 805 residents.
Churches near Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Annie Merner Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Temple UPCI — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Emory Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Saviours Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Brooklyn United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 12.1 mi away
- Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church — 12.7 mi away in Arenzville, IL
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