Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 107 churches in Wheeling, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Wheeling, WV, 26003Website: http://www.stjameswheeling.com
Shares a ministry location with St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across West 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.
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The community around Saint James Evangelical 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 48.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.8% (27.4–54.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Depression: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (2.4–21.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Wheeling city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 339 residents.
Churches near Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Second United Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Joseph — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Harvester Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Blue Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church God and Saints Christ — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity & First English Lutheran Churches — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away in Bridgeport, OH
- Christ Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
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