Saint James Lutheran Church
Saint James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Lake Forest, IL 60045. It is one of 14 churches in Lake Forest, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Part of Southeast Michigan Synod
Lake Forest, IL, 60045Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
Saint James 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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Latest from Saint James Online's YouTube channel: Pentecost 9, July 26, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Saint James Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Social Isolation: 25.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lake Forest city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 1,576 residents.
Churches near Saint James Lutheran Church
- Iglesia Cristiana Fuente de Amor — 1.3 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Christ Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Basil of Ostrog Serbian Orthodox Church — 1.7 mi away in Mettawa, IL
- First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Community Church — 1.8 mi away in Lake Bluff, IL
- Saint Mary's Church — 1.9 mi away
- Church of St. Mary — 1.9 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Lake Bluff, IL
- Church of the Holy Spirit — 2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away in Libertyville, IL
- Grace Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi away in Libertyville, IL
- St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.7 mi away in Libertyville, IL
- Christ Lutheran Church — 5 mi away in Vernon Hills, IL
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