The Community Of St. Dysmas

The Community Of St. Dysmas is a Lutheran church at 905 Frederick Rd in Baltimore, MD 21228-4517. It is one of 1,060 churches in Baltimore, and one of 51 Lutheran congregations in the city.

God’s purpose for The Community of St. Dysmas is to share the transforming power of Christ’s love with persons incarcerated in the Maryland Department of Corrections and to support them through weekly worship and Bible studies.

The Community of St. Dysmas takes its name from traditions surrounding one of the two thieves crucified with Jesus.

905 Frederick Rd, Baltimore, MD, 21228-4517

Phone: (443) 326-1115 · Website: http://stdysmasmd.org/

Shares a ministry location with Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Community Of St. Dysmas is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 293 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Maryland — 15,919 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 The Community Of St. Dysmas

  • Bible Studies

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The community around The Community Of St. Dysmas

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 32.3%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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