Saint Stephan Lutheran Church
Saint Stephan Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 512 McClellan Street in Wausau, WI 54403. It is one of 61 churches in Wausau, and one of 10 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Our mission statement, “In the name of Christ, we care, we share, we celebrate” drives us daily to actively walk in our faith and engage in acts of ministry within our four walls and in our larger community.
St. Stephen Lutheran Church is a member of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America), the East Central Synod of Wisconsin, and the River Valley Conference. Since the late 1800s, and since 1910 in its current location, St. Stephen has served as a place of worship, music, service, and education for members of the Wausau community and beyond.
Serving since 1881
512 McClellan Street, Wausau, WI, 54403Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (715) 845-7858 · Website: https://sslcwausau.com/
Saint Stephan 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.
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Latest from St. Stephen Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: February 9, 2025 - St. Stephen Worship Service (all videos).
The community around Saint Stephan 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.
- Unemployment: 12.7% (5.6–19.9%)
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (18.8–32.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.9–22.8%)
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (16.0–42.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wausau city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 1,120 residents.
Churches near Saint Stephan Lutheran Church
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- The Cross — 0 mi away
- First Universalist Unitarian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church-ELCA — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Resurrection Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Downtown Mission Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Zion Lutheran Church-ELCA — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away