First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Gainesville, FL 32603. It is one of 303 churches in Gainesville, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.
ENRICHING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WE MEET BY SHARING THE GRACE OF GOD.
Gainesville, FL, 32603Service times
- Sunday 10am
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 424 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Florida — 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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Latest from First Lutheran Church Gainesville FL's YouTube channel: 8 2 2026 Sermon Pastor Chris (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 57.0%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (4.1–12.2%)
- Depression: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 1,073 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- United Church of Gainesville — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Campus House (CCH) — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church & Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- University Lutheran Church & Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Chapel of the Incarnation — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ University City — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Liberty Hill United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greenhouse Church University Campus — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- University Lutheran Church & Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Gethsemane Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away
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