First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Porterville, CA 93257. It is one of 88 churches in Porterville, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Porterville, CA, 93257First 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.
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The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.2% (15.4–27.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.6–15.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (3.7–10.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Porterville city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 1,512 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- St. Anne's Parish of Porterville — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Annes Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John's Anglican Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Del Nazareno — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Unitarian Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Miracle Cathedral — 0.4 mi away
- Emanuel Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 6.7 mi away in Terra Bella, CA
- Zion Lutheran Church — 7.9 mi away in Terra Bella, CA
- Lindsay Lutheran Church — 10.2 mi away in Lindsay, CA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 17.1 mi away in Exeter, CA
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