Saint Paul's Lutheran Church
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 45 Smith Street in Paterson, NJ 07505. It is one of 170 churches in Paterson, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
45 Smith Street, Paterson, NJ, 07505Saint Paul's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 226 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New Jersey — 15,755 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 Saint Paul's Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 50.3%
- Child Poverty: 49.8% (32.0–67.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 14.8% (4.1–25.6%)
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (11.0–26.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Paterson city is served by 85 churches — about one congregation for every 1,857 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul's Lutheran Church
- Agape Christian Center Word Faith — 0.1 mi away
- ACM of Paterson, NJ — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Chapel Cfc Of Paterson — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Convent — 0.2 mi away
- Taller Guadalupano Catedral san Juan Bautista en Paterson — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Casa De Oración Misionera — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Michael the Archangel Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Luke's German Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 3 mi away in Clifton, NJ
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Fair Lawn, NJ
- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Clifton, NJ
- St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away in Wayne, NJ
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