Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Emporia, KS 66801. It is one of 63 churches in Emporia, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Emporia, KS, 66801Website: https://www.messiahlutheran.org/
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 230 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Kansas — 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.
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The community around Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (16.8–36.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.7%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Child Poverty: 24.0% (4.7–43.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.6–18.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Emporia city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.
Churches near Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Church of Christ in Emporia — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centro Cristiano De Emporia — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Didde Catholic Campus Center — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of Christ Science — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 2.1 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 18.9 mi away in Strong City, KS
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 23.4 mi away in Council Grove, KS