St Peter Lutheran Church
St Peter Lutheran Church is a Lutheran Church—missouri Synod church at 6540 Central Ave in Portage, IN 46368-3102. It is one of 39 churches in Portage.
Sharing God’s Love with Heart and Hands.
St. Peter Lutheran Church was founded in 1882 by a group of believers who met in the home of Anna and Jakob Lenburg.
Serving since 1882 · Part of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
6540 Central Ave, Portage, IN, 46368-3102Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (219) 762-2673 · Website: https://stpeterportage.com/
St Peter Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 354 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Indiana — 15,905 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 Peter Lutheran Church
- Food Pantry Support
- Ladies Guild
- Food Pantry
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The community around St Peter 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Food Insecurity: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.5–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Peter Lutheran Church
- City Point Church — 0.1 mi away
- Portage Christadelphians — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hope Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal Center of God Church — 1 mi away
- Portage First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Portage Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Crossroads Family Church — 1.2 mi away
- Living Hope Church — 1.2 mi away
- Nativity of Our Saviour Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Our Saviour Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in Valparaiso, IN
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 3.8 mi away in Lake Station, IN
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 3.8 mi away in Lake Station, IN
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 4.6 mi away in Chesterton, IN