First Evangelical Lutheran Church

First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2519 Grove Street in Blue Island, IL 60406. It is one of 32 churches in Blue Island, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Services in Spanish · Wheelchair accessible · Part of Metropolitan Chicago Synod

2519 Grove Street, Blue Island, IL, 60406

Service times

  • Wednesday 10am

Phone: (708) 385-4700 · Website: http://www.firstlutheranbi.org/

Shares a ministry location with Casa De Oracion Vida, Esperanza, Y Verdad.

First Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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 Evangelical Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,300 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: 28.1%
  • Social Isolation: 37.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
  • Unemployment: 10.3% (4.1–16.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
  • Diabetes: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.1–17.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Blue Island city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 975 residents.

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