What denomination is First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church in Long Beach, CA is a Lutheran church. It is one of 10 Lutheran congregations in Long Beach.

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Long Beach, CA 90813. It is one of 336 churches in Long Beach, and one of 10 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Long Beach, CA, 90813

Shares a ministry location with First Lutheran Church, LB/The Gathering memorial page.

First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 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.

Find First Lutheran Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around First Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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: 51.9% (34.4–69.4%)
Social Isolation: 45.0%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
Food Insecurity: 33.7%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
Poverty Rate: 28.5% (19.2–37.9%)
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
Diabetes: 13.8%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (9.5–18.1%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Unemployment: 6.4% (2.9–9.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Long Beach city is served by 143 churches — about one congregation for every 3,245 residents.

Churches near First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church, LB/The Gathering memorial page — 0 mi away
First Friends Church — 0.1 mi away
First Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
Citylights Church — 0.1 mi away
Shoreline Community Church — 0.1 mi away
Friendship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
Lime Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
St Johns Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
St Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Stephen Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
Our Saviors Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
Grace Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away
Resurrection Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi away

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