Southeast Michigan Synod
Southeast Michigan Synod is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 4800 Woodward Ave in Detroit, MI 48201-1310. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
Our mission is to Rise Up! Build Bridges. Bear Burdens. Break Chains. Bring Hope!
4800 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI, 48201-1310Phone: (313) 821-1055 · Website: https://semisynod.com/
Shares a ministry location with The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul.
Southeast Michigan Synod 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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Latest from Southeast Michigan Synod's YouTube channel: MLK Worship for Sunday, Jan 18, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Southeast Michigan Synod
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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (25.2–47.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 26.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (3.4–13.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Southeast Michigan Synod
- The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul — 0 mi away
- Deeper Life Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the New Jerusalem — 0.1 mi away
- First Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- The Cave of Adullam — 0.3 mi away
- Charity Cup Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Transforming Lives Ministries Int’l — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Faith Memorial Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- St. Philip's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Historic Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Genesis Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away