St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

St. Stephen's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1136 S 5th St in Milwaukee, WI 53204-2449. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee, and one of 54 Lutheran congregations in the city.

We Believe in the one true God, the Holy Trinity, as confessed in the three ecumenical creeds, who is the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

Serving since 1854 · Services in Spanish

1136 S 5th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53204-2449

Phone: (414) 383-0570 · Website: https://saintstephenlc.com/

St. Stephen's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,319 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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 St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

  • Food Pantry
  • Confirmation
  • First Communion

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The community around St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.

  • Child Poverty: 57.5% (39.5–75.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 36.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.1% (23.3–47.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.3% (13.8–32.8%)
  • Obesity: 44.2%
  • Social Isolation: 37.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
  • Depression: 23.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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