St John's Lutheran (ELCA)

St John's Lutheran (ELCA) is a Lutheran church at 500 3rd Street West in Northfield, MN 55057. It is one of 24 churches in Northfield, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.

St. John’s is a welcoming community in Christ whose mission is to celebrate in Word and Sacrament God’s gracious actions for the world cultivate growth in faith encourage service and witness, and proclaim Christ as the hope of the world

St. John’s Lutheran Church is a faith community rooted near the heart of downtown Northfield for almost 150 years.

Part of Southeastern Minnesota Synod

500 3rd Street West, Northfield, MN, 55057

Service times

Sunday 9:45am–10:30am (6th-12th Grade Youth Group -); Sunday 4pm–6pm (July -) (as listed)

Phone: (507) 645-4429 · Website: https://stjohnsnorthfield.org/

St John's Lutheran (ELCA) 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.

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The community around St John's Lutheran (ELCA)

Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (11.5–29.1%)
  • Unemployment: 9.4% (2.7–16.0%)
  • Social Isolation: 29.1%

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

Northfield city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 1,275 residents.

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