St. John's Lutheran Church

St. John's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 319 South Avenue in Jim Thorpe, PA 18229. It is one of 8 churches in Jim Thorpe, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.

St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Mauch Chunk was organized by the Rev. E.A. Bauer on October 1, 1857.

319 South Avenue, Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · mornings

Phone: (570) 385-4255 · Website: http://www.stjohnsinjimthorpe.org/

St. John's 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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The community around St. John's Lutheran Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 travel more than an hour to work. That is two thousand 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.

  • Depression: 23.7%

Source: CDC PLACES (2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Jim Thorpe borough is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 755 residents.

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