First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Waterloo, IA 50703. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 15 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Waterloo, IA, 50703Website: http://www.prairielakeschurch.org
Shares a ministry location with Hope City Church and Prairie Lakes Church Waterloo Campus.
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 51.8%
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (4.9–29.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (18.6–40.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Hope City Church — 0 mi away
- Prairie Lakes Church Waterloo Campus — 0 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Vineyard Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Cosecha de Waterloo — 0.3 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Queen of Peace Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity American Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Ansgars Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away