St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 37 South 5th Street in Allentown, PA 18101. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are a community of Christians, open to all, empowered by faith in Jesus Christ to make the Gospel visible by nurturing one another and all whose lives we touch.
37 South 5th Street, Allentown, PA, 18101Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (610) 435-1587 · Website: https://www.stjohnsallentown.org/
St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,011 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 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.
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Latest from St John's Lutheran Allentown's YouTube channel: Worship - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,500 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (19.5–43.9%)
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (9.4–24.0%)
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.2–14.7%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Allentown city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 1,456 residents.
Churches near St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- New Life In Christ Aftercare Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- St John's UCC Allentown — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Stephen of Hungary — 0.2 mi away
- LifeChurch City Campus — 0.2 mi away
- Zion's "Liberty Bell" UCC Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ 1 review — 0.2 mi away
- St. James AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Glory Carriers Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Full Effect Gospel Ministries Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St Paul's Lutheran Head Start — 0.4 mi away
- St. Luke's Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Matthew's Lutheran — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ripple Church — 1.1 mi away
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