Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church
Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Gary, IN 46402. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46402Shares a ministry location with Bethel Church of God.
Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 353 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Indiana — 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 Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 86.0%
- Obesity: 52.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.0% (23.9–54.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Diabetes: 27.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.7–14.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Bethel Church of God — 0 mi away
- 20th Century Missionary Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Casimir's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Power and Light Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Gift Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Logan Park Assembly of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Philip Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away