St. James Evangelical Lutheran

St. James Evangelical Lutheran is a church in Lebanon, PA 17042. It is one of 89 churches in Lebanon.

Lebanon, PA, 17042

St. James Evangelical 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. James Evangelical Lutheran

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 60.8%
  • Obesity: 44.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 29.8% (20.9–38.7%)
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Unemployment: 11.7% (2.7–20.8%)
  • Depression: 25.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Lebanon city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 2,425 residents.

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