Zoar Evangelical Lutheran Church

Zoar Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 17820 Joseph Campau Street in Detroit, MI 48212. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 24 Lutheran congregations in the city.

17820 Joseph Campau Street, Detroit, MI, 48212

Zoar Evangelical 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 Zoar Evangelical Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 51.2%
  • Obesity: 49.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 37.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.8% (21.8–49.8%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 25.8%
  • Diabetes: 23.1%
  • Unemployment: 14.2% (5.1–23.3%)
  • Child Poverty: 39.1% (24.8–56.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 38.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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

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