Messiah Lutheran Church
Messiah Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 901 N 6th St in Harrisburg, PA 17102-1704. It is one of 221 churches in Harrisburg.
Our mission is to make real the life and love of our Lord Jesus Christ to the community we serve by being faithful witnesses to God’s word and by welcoming all who share this vision.
Founded in 1860, Messiah Lutheran Church located in the heart of downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, invites ALL to be fed and welcomed at the weekly table of word and sacrament in worship.
Part of Lower Susquehanna Synod
901 N 6th St, Harrisburg, PA, 17102-1704Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Wednesday 12pm
Phone: (717) 233-6731 · Website: https://www.messiahhbg.org/
Shares a ministry location with Salem United Church of Christ.
Messiah 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 Messiah Lutheran Church
- Food Pantry
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The community around Messiah Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 67.0% (47.1–86.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (18.7–44.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.3–18.2%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Messiah Lutheran Church
- Salem United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Harrisburg Quaker Meeting — 0.1 mi away
- Midtown Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- German Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick — 0.3 mi away
- Second City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Penna Catholic Conference — 0.3 mi away
- Pine Street Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- German Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Michael Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran — 1.7 mi away in Enola, PA
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