St. Matthew Lutheran Church

St. Matthew Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2837 E New York St in Indianapolis, IN 46201. It is one of 1,322 churches in Indianapolis, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.

A welcoming confessional Lutheran church with daycare, preschool, and food bank ministries serving Fort Wayne, Indiana

2837 E New York St, Indianapolis, IN, 46201

Phone: (317) 637-8870 · Website: https://stmatthewsfw.org/

Shares a ministry location with Cornerstone Lutheran Church Indianapolis.

St. Matthew 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.

Ministries at St. Matthew Lutheran Church

  • Food Bank

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The community around St. Matthew Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 27.5%
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Social Isolation: 37.9%
  • Depression: 27.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.7% (16.5–37.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (8.0–27.2%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
  • Unemployment: 11.9% (6.4–17.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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