St. Mark's Lutheran Church
St. Mark's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 56 South Hancock Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
56 South Hancock Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,004 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 15,755 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. Mark's Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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.
- Unemployment: 24.7% (13.2–36.2%)
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (17.9–40.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.0–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), 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 St. Mark's Lutheran Church
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.2 mi away
- Meade Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Restored Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away in Ashley, PA
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