Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church
Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Union City, NJ 07087. It is one of 51 churches in Union City, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
As the people of God gathered in this place, we learn, worship, and serve.
Part of North Carolina Synod
Union City, NJ, 07087Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 231 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New Jersey — 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 Saint Matthew's 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 4,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.5% (16.5–30.6%)
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (16.2–46.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (17.5–38.8%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.6–15.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Union City city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 3,736 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church
- Iglesia Metodista Unida — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Mision Principe De Paz — 0.1 mi away
- Palisade Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- La Esperanza Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Del Avivamiento — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Jesus El Rey — 0.2 mi away
- Hudson Korean Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Cross Armenian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Apostoles y Profetas — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away in North Bergen, NJ
- Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1 mi away in Weehawken, NJ
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away in North Bergen, NJ
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in Jersey City, NJ
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