Santa Cruz Lutheran Church
Santa Cruz Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Joliet, IL 60432. It is one of 161 churches in Joliet, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Through bilingual worship, Christian education, community partnerships, and ministries such as the Blessing Bench Food Pantry, the congregation seeks to share Christ’s love with neighbors from every background.
Joliet, IL, 60432Service times
- Tuesday 8:30am
Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz Lutheran Church
- Food Pantry
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The community around Santa Cruz Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.2% (19.5–38.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.5–17.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (11.8–25.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Joliet city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 2,255 residents.
Churches near Santa Cruz Lutheran Church
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Prayer Tower Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristo es la Roca — 0.1 mi away
- Redeem Church Of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Community Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Canaan Land Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Joliet — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Church of God and Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemed Connection Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Peter Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Theodore Street Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away in Crest Hill, IL