St. James Lutheran Church
St. James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2381 Romence Road in Portage, MI 49024. It is one of 41 churches in Portage, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a congregation of believers in Christ Jesus located in Portage, Michigan. We trust in Christ our Lord for salvation. Through faith in Jesus we have the assurance of the forgiveness of our sins and the promise of eternal life.
Part of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
2381 Romence Road, Portage, MI, 49024Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (269) 327-4980 · Website: https://stjamesportage.org/
St. James 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 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, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 34.1%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (4.0–19.7%)
- Obesity: 37.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portage city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 2,878 residents.
Churches near St. James Lutheran Church
- Portage Chapel Hill — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Michael Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oakland Drive Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kalamazoo Valley Family Church — 0.9 mi away
- Radiant Church — 0.9 mi away
- Portage United Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- Refuge Church — 1.1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Michael Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 4 mi away in Kalamazoo, MI
- Solid Ground — 4.9 mi away in Kalamazoo, MI
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 5.2 mi away in Kalamazoo, MI