Messiah Lutheran Church
Messiah Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 613 South Main Street in Independence, MO 64050. It is one of 161 churches in Independence.
613 South Main Street, Independence, MO, 64050Website: http://www.messiahlcms.net/
Messiah Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Messiah Lutheran Church
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 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.3–34.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (3.5–16.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (8.0–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Independence city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,768 residents.
Churches near Messiah Lutheran Church
- New Covenant Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Family Life Center / Central Mission Community of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ Zion's Branch — 0.5 mi away
- New Walnut Park Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away