St Matthew Lutheran Church
St Matthew Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 5125 Cascade Road Southeast, Grand Rapids in Forest Hills, MI 49546. It is one of 19 churches in Forest Hills.
Connecting a Restless world to the restoring way of Jesus
St Matthew Lutheran Church was founded in Cascade, in 1970 as a mission congregation, as Pastor Jim Henning was assigned to make disciples in the area growing east of Grand Rapids.
Serving since 1970
5125 Cascade Road Southeast, Grand Rapids, Forest Hills, MI, 49546Service times
- Sunday 8:15am
Phone: (616) 942-9091 · Website: http://stmatthewgr.com/
St Matthew 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 Matthew Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Forest Hills is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 1,434 residents.
Churches near St Matthew Lutheran Church
- Living Grace Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses--Cascade & Grand Rapids East English — 0.2 mi away
- Keystone Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Redeemer Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Genesis United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Forest Hills Bible Chapel — 0.8 mi away in Grand Rapids charter township, MI
- Barefoot Gardens Fellowship Ministries — 1 mi away in Ada, MI
- St Michael Parish Ukranian — 1.2 mi away in Kentwood, MI
- The Way MicroChurches — 1.4 mi away in Grand Rapids, MI
- Ada Bible Church — 1.4 mi away in Kentwood, MI
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Our Savior Lutheran Church & School — 3 mi away in Grand Rapids, MI
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Grand Rapids, MI
- Spirit and Life Team — 4.4 mi away in Grand Rapids, MI
- Ascension Lutheran Church — 5.1 mi away in Kentwood, MI
- Hope Lutheran Church — 5.7 mi away in Grand Rapids, MI
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