Maranatha Free Lutheran Church
Maranatha Free Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Houghton, MI 49931. It is one of 17 churches in Houghton, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Houghton, MI, 49931Maranatha Free Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 918 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 15,919 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 Maranatha Free Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (4.4–11.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.1% (12.1–24.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Maranatha Free Lutheran Church
- Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Ignatius Loyala Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Houghton Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ the King Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Portage Lake United Church — 0.8 mi away
- Canterbury House — 0.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Apostolic Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away in Hancock, MI
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away in Hancock, MI
- Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away