Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church is a church at 14213 Whitcomb Avenue in Detroit, MI 48227. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit.
14213 Whitcomb Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48227Holy Cross 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 Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (18.3–40.7%)
- Unemployment: 11.6% (5.3–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Holy Cross Lutheran Church
- Calvary Community Church — 0 mi away
- Greater Marion Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Outreach Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- RCCG Winners' Chapel Detroit — 0.2 mi away
- Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Clearview Christian Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Temple of Worship — 0.5 mi away
- City of Refuge — 0.5 mi away
- The Gospel of Christ Ministries Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Greenfield Peace Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Outer Drive Faith Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away