Saint John Lutheran Church
Saint John Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 8918 Tidewater Drive in Norfolk, VA 23503. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We freely share the gift of the “Good News,” proclaiming God’s saving Gospel. As a family in Christ, the congregation of St. John Lutheran respects us from where we have come, joyfully serves in the present, while ever looking ahead as the Holy Spirit continually moves us to enrich our own spiritual lives and share the blessings of God with others.
8918 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23503Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Saint John Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 227 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Virginia — 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.
Ministries at Saint John Lutheran Church
- Food Drive
- Scouting
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Latest from St John's Lutheran Church Norfolk Virginia's YouTube channel: 3rd Sunday After Pentecost 07 1 2022 (all videos).
The community around Saint John Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly 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: 46.6% (31.1–62.1%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.3–29.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.7–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Saint John Lutheran Church
- Ocean View Lighthouse Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ocean View Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Bayview Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Monument of Joy — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Miles Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ocean View Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- OV Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 5.6 mi away
- Unity Lutheran Church — 5.7 mi away
- St Timothy Lutheran Church — 6.5 mi away