Ascension Lutheran Church
Ascension Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1440 Southeast 182nd Avenue in Portland, OR 97233. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 28 Lutheran congregations in the city.
It is our mission and privilege to “Go and Share Jesus Christ”, starting in the communities of Gresham and Portland, and outward to the United States and countries around the world.
Ascension Lutheran Church reaches into the community here and abroad to change lives and share the love of Christ.
Services in Spanish · Wheelchair accessible
1440 Southeast 182nd Avenue, Portland, OR, 97233Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (503) 665-8821 · Website: https://www.alcportland.org/
Ascension Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 213 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Oregon — 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.
Ministries at Ascension Lutheran Church
- Adult Bible Study
- Children's Sunday School
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The community around Ascension Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Depression: 33.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Child Poverty: 22.9% (6.8–39.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (10.5–30.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gresham city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 2,469 residents.
Churches near Ascension Lutheran Church
- House of God Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Anne Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rockwood Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Portland Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Signs of Praise Deaf Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Luz del Pueblo — 0.4 mi away
- AS IS Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rockwood United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away in Gresham, OR
- Christ Light Unity — 0.6 mi away in Gresham, OR
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Rose of Sharon Lutheran Brethren Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Timothy Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away in Gresham, OR
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away in Gresham, OR
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 3 mi away