Lutheran Colportage Services

Lutheran Colportage Services is a Lutheran church at 2101 Chicago Ave S in Minneapolis, MN 55404-2815. It is one of 454 churches in Minneapolis, and one of 51 Lutheran congregations in the city.

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2101 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55404-2815

Phone: (612) 440-7463 · Website: http://www.goodinthehood.org

Lutheran Colportage Services is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,487 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 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 Lutheran Colportage Services

  • Food Programs
  • Holiday Help
  • Foot Care Services

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The community around Lutheran Colportage Services

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 41.8%
  • Social Isolation: 40.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 32.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.1% (18.5–41.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 23.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
  • Unemployment: 16.6% (9.2–24.1%)
  • Obesity: 41.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
  • Depression: 27.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (8.8–19.6%)
  • Diabetes: 13.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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