Messiah Lutheran Church
Messiah Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 453 South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
453 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Messiah 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 Messiah Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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: 41.8%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.1–14.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (11.1–25.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Messiah Lutheran Church
- Iglesia de Dios de la Profecia — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Jerusalem — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Albright United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Paso de Fe — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Un Dia en su Presencia — 0.4 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wyoming Valley Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1 mi away in Ashley, PA
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
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