Central Lutheran Chuch
Central Lutheran Chuch is a Lutheran church at 1820 NE 21st Ave in Portland, OR 97212. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 32 Lutheran congregations in the city.
An important part of Central’s mission statement is to build community.
Central’s legacy is that we are a welcoming and progressive Christian community in NE Portland joyfully building community, doing justice, and making peace.
1820 NE 21st Ave, Portland, OR, 97212Service times
- Sunday 10am · mornings
Phone: (503) 284-2331 · Website: https://www.centralportland.org/
Central Lutheran Chuch is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 214 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Oregon — 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 Central Lutheran Chuch
- Community Space
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The community around Central Lutheran Chuch
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 31.1%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.3–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Central Lutheran Chuch
- Practicing The Way — 0.1 mi away
- Holladay Park Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- Bridgetown Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Memorial Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Augustana Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Church of Portland — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Portland — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Augustana Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Leaven Community — 1.8 mi away
- First Immanuel Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Saint James Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away