St. Matthew's Lutheran

St. Matthew's Lutheran is a Lutheran church at 26 South 10th Street in Allentown, PA 18102. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.

26 South 10th Street, Allentown, PA, 18102

Shares a ministry location with Iglesia de Restauracion Unidos en Cristo.

St. Matthew's Lutheran 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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The community around St. Matthew's Lutheran

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 30.3%
  • Obesity: 42.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.5–31.4%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.5–21.8%)
  • Diabetes: 15.0%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (0.5–17.7%)
  • Depression: 24.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Allentown city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 1,456 residents.

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