Spirit of Joy Christian Child Care Center
Spirit of Joy Christian Child Care Center is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 1155 W Stenger St in San Benito, TX 78586-4346. It is one of 45 churches in San Benito.
We seek to be a faith community in which lives are renewed as we share the love of Jesus by serving others with a spirit of joy.
Spirit of Joy started in 1999 with a God-sized vision. God is alive and stirring here, calling us to share the joy of Christ with our neighbors and with God’s help to have a significant impact on life in East Orange County and around the world.
1155 W Stenger St, San Benito, TX, 78586-4346Service times
- Sunday 7:45am · morning worship team rehearses before morning worship
Phone: (956) 399-3563 · Website: https://www.spiritofjoy.org/
Spirit of Joy Christian Child Care Center is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 753 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Texas — 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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Latest from Spirit of Joy Lutheran's YouTube channel: Matthew 18:21-35, 9/13/2026 (all videos).
The community around Spirit of Joy Christian Child Care Center
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 working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (20.2–49.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (17.7–35.1%)
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Child Poverty: 39.8% (20.3–59.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.3–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Spirit of Joy Christian Child Care Center
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.4 mi away
- La Palma Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Presbiteriana Getsemani — 0.6 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Cristo Rey — 0.7 mi away
- "" Christ is the Rock"" — 0.7 mi away
- El Salvador Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Pan de Vida — 0.8 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- The Table Church, San Benito — 1 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4.5 mi away in Harlingen, TX
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 4.6 mi away in Harlingen, TX
- Lutheran Church Our Redeemer — 5.1 mi away in Harlingen, TX
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 17 mi away in Brownsville, TX