Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 181 West Main Street in Peru, IN 46970. It is one of 45 churches in Peru.
What we believe is what we teach.
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru, Indiana in Miami County is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Part of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
181 West Main Street, Peru, IN, 46970Service times
- Sunday, Friday 7:30am–9am
- Sunday, Friday 12pm
- Sunday, Friday 6pm
- Sunday, Friday 6:30am
- Sunday, Friday 9:30am
Phone: +1 765 473 6659 · Website: https://www.stjohnsperu.org/
Saint John's 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 Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 51.3% (32.6–70.0%)
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (19.8–44.0%)
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (3.6–14.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Peru city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 315 residents.
Churches near Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Story Church — 0.4 mi away
- Heartland Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- Chapel of Praise — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church of Peru Indiana — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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- Trinity Lutheran Church — 15.5 mi away in Logansport, IN
- Faith Lutheran Church — 18 mi away in Logansport, IN