Solid Ground

Solid Ground is a Lutheran church in Kalamazoo, MI 49008. It is one of 171 churches in Kalamazoo, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Kalamazoo, MI, 49008

Shares a ministry location with The Beloved Church of Kalamazoo.

Solid Ground 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 Solid Ground

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half 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: 60.8%
  • Social Isolation: 47.6%
  • Depression: 37.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 35.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
  • Obesity: 36.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (4.1–9.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Kalamazoo city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 2,845 residents.

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