Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 5600 Old Washington Road in Sykesville, MD 21784. It is one of 29 churches in Sykesville.
Our Mission is to teach God's Word, show His Love, to serve as a beacon to all, and to share faith in Jesus Christ.
Messiah Lutheran Evangelical Church is a growing congregation that will celebrate its 144th birthday this summer! We are a very active church that is home to members of all ages.
5600 Old Washington Road, Sykesville, MD, 21784Service times
- Sunday 10am · service is held
- Sunday 9am · School Confirmation classes are held mornings
Website: http://www.melchurch.org/
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 289 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Maryland — 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.
Ministries at Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Food Collection
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Latest from Messiah Lutheran Sykesville Maryland's YouTube channel: July 26, 2026 - Message from ELCA YAGM Missionary to Cambodia - Joseph Dubsky (all videos).
The community around Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Social Isolation: 29.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.9 mi away
- Brandenburg United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- White Rock Church — 1.4 mi away
- South Carroll Church of the Nazarene — 1.5 mi away
- Winfield Bible Chapel — 2.2 mi away
- Harmony Grove Church — 2.2 mi away
- Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away in Woodbine, MD
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 2.6 mi away in Eldersburg, MD
- Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Wesley Chapel — 2.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Faith Lutheran Church — 4.2 mi away
- Holy Spirit Lutheran Church — 5.3 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 6 mi away in Mount Airy, MD
- Deer Park Lutheran Church — 6.7 mi away in Westminster, MD
- Shepherd of the Glen Lutheran Church — 9.5 mi away in Glenwood, MD
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