Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 418 4th Street in Gretna, LA 70053. It is one of 63 churches in Gretna.
Salem is committed to the historic liturgy and traditional Lutheran hymnody as an authentic, evangelical expression of the Christian faith.
418 4th Street, Gretna, LA, 70053Phone: (504) 256-3440 · Website: https://salemlutherangretna.org/
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 80 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Louisiana — 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 Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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: 26.7%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (9.2–36.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (2.0–24.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gretna city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,019 residents.
Churches near Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Boynton United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Regular Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Life Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jefferson Parish Finance Department — 0.4 mi away
- Gretna Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Zion Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Mount Zion Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Love Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in New Orleans, LA