St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church

St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod church at 8444 West Melvina Street in Milwaukee, WI 53222. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee, and one of 6 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod congregations in the city.

Part of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

8444 West Melvina Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53222

Service times

  • Sunday 9am

Website: http://stmattwels.com

St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,300 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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. Matthew Evangelical 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.3%
  • Social Isolation: 35.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.3–26.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Milwaukee city is served by 302 churches — about one congregation for every 1,887 residents.

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