Leaven Community
Leaven Community is a Lutheran church at 5431 NE 20th Ave in Portland, OR 97211-5509. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 32 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Leaven Community envisions more equitable, diverse and thriving communities rooted in the sacred interconnection of all and the creative and liberative power within these relationships.
Leaven is a community of communities. We are a wide and diverse web of people who gather to imagine our future and build it together. Rooted in Leaven’s core values of justice, story, diversity, and action, we ignite the power of our relationships to act collectively with our neighbors for more equitable, diverse, and thriving neighborhoods.
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211-5509Phone: (503) 287-7553 · Website: https://www.leaven.org/
Leaven Community 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 Leaven Community
- Community Meals
- Community Organizing
- Land & Housing Coalition
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Latest from Leaven Community's YouTube channel: 09-13-2026 Salt & Light Lutheran and Central Lutheran Church (all videos).
The community around Leaven Community
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 30.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Leaven Community
- Cornerstone Community Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Sharon Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Full Gospel Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemed Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- One Hope Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- New Season Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Daniels Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Kings Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Ainsworth United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Michaels Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Augustana Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Central Lutheran Chuch — 1.8 mi away
- Bethel Lutheran Church — 2 mi away