First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 88 Grove Street in Waterbury, CT 06704. It is one of 98 churches in Waterbury, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.
88 Grove Street, Waterbury, CT, 06704First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 102 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Connecticut — 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 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 51.4%
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Poverty Rate: 43.2% (30.7–55.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (5.2–26.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Child Poverty: 23.7% (8.9–38.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.5–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterbury city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 2,160 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- New Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Refuge Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Redeeming Love Tabernacle of Praise — 0.1 mi away
- Faith kingdom Breakthrough ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Ingathering Pentecostal Temple Apostolic — 0.1 mi away
- Miracle Center — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Way of the Cross Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia New Life A/D de Waterbury — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Cross of Christ Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4.4 mi away in Naugatuck, CT
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 4.5 mi away in Naugatuck, CT
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 4.7 mi away in Watertown, CT
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