St. John's Lutheran Church
St. John's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 410 South River Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Our spiritual climate encourages an active faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
At St. John's Lutheran School, we provide an educational environment that strives to enrich the "whole" child in a "holy" way.
410 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702St. 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
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 a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 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.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.6–29.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.9–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near St. John's Lutheran Church
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Jerusalem — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios de la Profecia — 0.4 mi away
- St Lukes United Church Of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Albright United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Paso de Fe — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in Ashley, PA
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
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