Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry is a Lutheran church at 1468 W 25th St in Cleveland, OH 44113-3102. It is one of 783 churches in Cleveland, and one of 16 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Our mission to challenge injustices faced by those who are oppressed, forgotten, and hurting by providing responsive solutions, voice and hope.
Founded in 1969, the mission of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM) is inspired by our Lutheran faith tradition, and our commitment to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly (Micah 6:8).
1468 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH, 44113-3102Phone: (216) 861-3099 · Website: https://www.lutheranmetro.org/
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 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 Metropolitan Ministry
- Guardianship Services
- Housing & Shelter
- Workforce Development
- Youth Resiliency Services
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The community around Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 87.0%
- Poverty Rate: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Unemployment: 16.8% (7.8–25.8%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
- Saint Malachis Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Ohio City — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Franklin Circle Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Emeric Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Annunciation Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Mary's Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- First Hungarian Spiritualist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Refugio Eterno — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away