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Luther Rice University sits in Lithonia, United States, and is a small college. The church closest to campus is East Side Church, about 4.4 miles away. You will find Orthodox congregations in the surrounding area, and you are welcome whether or not that tradition is your own.

A campus with Christian roots

Public records associate Luther Rice University with a Baptist affiliation. Many schools with Christian roots keep a chapel, a campus ministry, or a chaplain, and welcome students of every background and none. If that is your tradition you may find a home quickly here; if it is new to you, you are just as welcome to come and see. The churches nearest campus are listed below, and you can always ask on the student community who gathers where.

Arriving, and the ache of a new place

A smaller campus in Lithonia can feel like everyone already found their people before you arrived, and you are still looking. That ache is not weakness and it is not rare. Nearly everyone around you feels some version of it, and one of the oldest, quietest answers to it is a room full of people who will learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat.

There are churches near campus where students are already gathering. You would not have to walk in alone. If it helps, start with when you feel lonely at college, how to find Christian friends, or what a first Sunday is actually like.

And you do not have to wait to be found. The other believers are already here, scattered and unseen. The Campus Gathering shows you how to find them, or begin one yourself, because two or three who gather in his name are already the church on this campus, and the most beautiful doorway to Christ a searching student ever walks through.

You are more than your transcript

Faith is in the air on this campus, in the seal, the chapel, the traditions. The harder question is whether it has become yours yet, or is still only something you inherited and have never once chosen.

It is not a new question. Students have carried it through Lithonia since 1962. This is the oldest ache there is, and a degree, however good, was never built to fill it. Long before you had a transcript, a major, or a single line of achievement to your name, you were already known and already loved. That is the heart of what Christians mean by the Living Bread: a belonging and a life that do not run out when the grades come in, when the offer falls through, or when a semester in Lithonia quietly breaks you. Jesus offered himself to hungry people as exactly that, the bread that satisfies the hunger underneath the hunger, the one no achievement has ever reached.

If that stirs something in you, you can start with who Jesus actually is, or sit for a while with deciding what you actually believe. There is no hurry, and no test at the end of it.

Where you are, and who is already near

Luther Rice University has stood in Lithonia, United States since 1962. Generation after generation of students has arrived here in the years since, hauling boxes into a strange room, learning a new set of streets, and carrying the same quiet questions underneath the timetable and the reading list. You are only the newest of a very long line.

And you are not without a local family here. The congregations nearest campus are real, named places: East Side Church about 4.4 miles away; Ray of Hope Christian Church about 4.8 miles away; and Twin Oaks Ward about 5.7 miles away. These are not abstractions on a map. They are ordinary rooms full of people who would learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat, a short way from where you sleep.

Wherever you have come from, Lithonia, United States can become more than the city your degree happens to be printed in. It can become the place you were found. You can see every nearby church listed in full just below, explore more campuses across Georgia, or step back to the whole University Kingdom Network. And when you want a congregation near your exact address, the church finder can map it.

Churches Near Luther Rice University

These are real congregations closest to campus, drawn from OpenStreetMap, with straight-line distances. Service times and student ministries vary, so check each church directly. When you are ready, the church finder maps them for you.

• East Side Church
  4.4 miles away
• Ray of Hope Christian Church
  4.8 miles away
• Twin Oaks Ward

  Latter-day Saints
  5.7 miles away
• Wesley Chapel
  5.9 miles away
• Union Hill Church
  6.1 miles away
• St. Stephen Church
  6.2 miles away
• Triumph Church
  6.6 miles away
• Hairston Road Church
  6.8 miles away
• Tabernacle Church

  Assemblies Of God
  7.0 miles away
• Rowland Hills Church
  7.4 miles away
• Glencoe Church
  7.8 miles away
• Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross
  8.0 miles away
• Kidist Mariam Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church

  Eritrean Orthodox
  8.4 miles away
• Pentacostal Deliverance Church
  8.5 miles away

Getting to church without a car

The closest of these may be a short bus, bike, or car ride from campus. Many students do not have a car. Check the local transit route on a Sunday, or ask in your campus community whether anyone is walking or driving over. Going with someone the first time makes all the difference.

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