St. Stephen Lutheran Church
St. Stephen Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1235 Lawndale Street in Detroit, MI 48209. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 24 Lutheran congregations in the city.
The mission of St. Stephen Lutheran Church is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with all people so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, they receive the gift of faith and are strengthened to live bold and courageous lives of Christian witness before an unbelieving world, all to the glory of God.
1235 Lawndale Street, Detroit, MI, 48209Service times
Wednesdays 11:00 AM; Wednesday, August 19, 6:00-9:00pm; Tuesdays 10:00am (as listed)
Website: http://www.billydbrooks.org/?page_id=7
St. Stephen 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. Stephen Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 42.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (15.2–40.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (8.6–22.5%)
- Depression: 24.0%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (7.2–40.0%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.2–12.6%)
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.
Churches near St. Stephen Lutheran Church
- Pan de Vida Iglesia Luterana — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana de Avivamiento "Casa de Restauración" — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana de Avivamiento — 0.2 mi away
- Grace in Action — 0.3 mi away
- Free Penetcostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spiritual Light Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harbor of Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity-St Mark's United Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity-Saint Mark's United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Palabra de Vida Paul the Apostle — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace in Action — 0.3 mi away
- Palabra de Vida Paul the Apostle — 0.5 mi away
- Palabra de Vida Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Lutherana Pan de Vida — 2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away