St James Lutheran Church
St James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1407 8th Ave in Altoona, PA 16602-2407. It is one of 89 churches in Altoona, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
1407 8th Ave, Altoona, PA, 16602-2407Service times
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: (814) 944-6835 · Website: https://stjamesaltoona.org/
St James 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.
Ministries at St James Lutheran Church
- Visitation
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The community around St James Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (17.8–34.9%)
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.4–18.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St James Lutheran Church
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mother Gethsemane Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Center City Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.6 mi away in Hollidaysburg, PA
- Geeseytown Evangelical Lutheran Church — 5.2 mi away in Hollidaysburg, PA
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