Cross of Christ Lutheran Church

Cross of Christ Lutheran Church is a Protestant church at 585 East Slifer Street in Portage, WI 53901. It is one of 17 churches in Portage.

585 East Slifer Street, Portage, WI, 53901

Phone: +1-608-742-5609 · Website: https://www.portagelutheranchurch.org/

Cross of Christ 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 Cross of Christ Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 34.2% (15.2–53.4%)
  • Social Isolation: 32.3%
  • Obesity: 37.0%
  • Depression: 25.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.6–29.6%)
  • Food Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Unemployment: 6.4% (2.9–10.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Portage city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 1,081 residents.

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