Saint Matthews Lutheran Church
Saint Matthews Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Benton Harbor, MI 49022. It is one of 72 churches in Benton Harbor, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Benton Harbor, MI, 49022Saint Matthews Lutheran Church 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.
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The community around Saint Matthews 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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.8% (38.1–73.6%)
- Obesity: 54.6%
- Food Insecurity: 49.8%
- Poverty Rate: 43.7% (30.4–57.0%)
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 17.9% (5.0–30.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Benton Harbor city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 371 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthews Lutheran Church
- Ebeneezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Deliverance Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bread of Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Power Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
- Saron Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 3.8 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
- Grace Church — 4.4 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
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