St John's Lutheran Church and School
St John's Lutheran Church and School is a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod church at 706 W Jane St in Bay City, MI 48706-4280. It is one of 74 churches in Bay City.
The mission of St. John's Lutheran Church and School, according to Christ's command, is to proclaim the true gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ, by Word and sacraments, nurturing believers and reaching out to the people of our community, as well as throughout the world.
By God’s grace, St. John’s Lutheran School will continue to instruct children in bay city according to His Word.
706 W Jane St, Bay City, MI, 48706-4280Service times
- Sunday 10am · Livestream available Online Messages page during
Phone: (989) 684-6791 · Website: https://www.stjohnsbc.org/
St John's Lutheran Church and School is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 917 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 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.
Find St John's Lutheran Church and School on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from Saint John's Bay City's YouTube channel: Sunday Service - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around St John's Lutheran Church and School
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 33.9% (17.5–50.3%)
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (13.0–29.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Food Insecurity: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (1.8–10.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St John's Lutheran Church and School
- Peoples Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Bay, MI
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Apostolic Life Church Bay City — 0.4 mi away
- St Alban's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bay City Evangelical Free Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Family Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Dominion Life Ministries Church Of God — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away in Bay, MI
- Mt. Olive Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away in Bay, MI
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away