Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church
Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church is a church at 334 La Grave Avenue Southeast in Grand Rapids, MI 49503. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids.
334 La Grave Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 94 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Michigan — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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The community around Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (24.8–41.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Depression: 30.8%
- Food Insecurity: 24.1%
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (20.5–41.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.4–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Andrew — 0.1 mi away
- Power of the Cross — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- City Life Church-A Wesleyan Community — 0.2 mi away
- City Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Central Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mel Trotter Ministries (Rescue Mission) — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Christian Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Campus Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Eastern Orthodox churches nearby
- St John Chrysostom Russian Orthodox Church — 1.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church — 2.6 mi away