St John's Lutheran Church

St John's Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 4950 Oakman Boulevard in Detroit, MI 48204. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 3 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.

Welcome to our church! We are St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church—a community of people united in our faith in God and each other.

4950 Oakman Boulevard, Detroit, MI, 48204

Service times

  • Sunday 11am · Services Facebook Page YouTube Channel week

Phone: (800) 346-6120 · Website: https://sjlcdetroit.360unite.com/home

St John's 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 St John's 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

  • Obesity: 47.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 46.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 34.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
  • Diabetes: 21.5%
  • Unemployment: 18.2% (4.6–31.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 38.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.6% (14.5–40.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

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