Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Gethsemane Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 11560 Southeast Market Street in Portland, OR 97216. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 28 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are forgiven and called by God to proclaim the Good News of Christ. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, our mission is to serve both the physical and spiritual needs of all people in our changing society. We welcome all races, abilities, genders, and sexual orientations.
Gethsemane Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Oregon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We were formed from the creative combining of 2 small churches in east Portland/Multnomah County in 1964; Hope Lutheran and Mount Olivet… each with roots from different Lutheran denominations!The property of the old Tiny Dumont’s dance hall at 117th and Market was purchased and together the newly formed Gethsemane Lutheran Church turned it into a new interpretation of a center for community and celebration. 60 years later, being a center for community and gathering continues to drive
Part of Oregon Synod
11560 Southeast Market Street, Portland, OR, 97216Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · mornings We worship in-person online beginning
Phone: +1-503-256-1835 · Website: http://glcportland.org/
Gethsemane Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 213 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Oregon — 15,756 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 Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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.
- Depression: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (12.0–41.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (6.8–20.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Portland city is served by 353 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.
Churches near Gethsemane Lutheran Church
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mill Park Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cherry Park United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ 4th Watch — 0.5 mi away
- Eastgate Bible Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Sunnyside Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Peace Church of the Brethren — 0.6 mi away
- American Missionary Church - Portland — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Universal — 0.7 mi away
- Shepherd's Gate Chirch — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Timothy Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Lutheran Brethren Church — 2.5 mi away