St. James Lutheran Church
St. James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran Church—missouri Synod church at 2040 Oakwood Avenue Northeast in Grand Rapids, MI 49505. It is one of 420 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 2 Lutheran Church—missouri Synod congregations in the city.
Serving since 1929
2040 Oakwood Avenue Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49505Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (616) 363-7718 · Website: http://stjamesgr.com/
St. James 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.
Ministries at St. James Lutheran Church
- ISJ Academy
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The community around St. James Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 32.4%
- Depression: 29.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 St. James Lutheran Church
- Anchor Baptist Church SBC — 0.2 mi away
- Second Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Second Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- City Of Refuge Church — 0.3 mi away
- LifePoint Church — 0.3 mi away
- Riverside Christian Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- North End Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Reformed Church — 0.5 mi away
- Women of the Well — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Faith Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- St James Church — 2.2 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away