First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 324 N. Third St. in DeKalb, IL 60115. It is one of 11 churches in DeKalb, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Jesus calls us to love God and one another, to practice radical hospitality, to serve all without stipulations and to seek reconciliation and wholeness in our life together and in outreach to the world.
There is a place for you here at First Lutheran Church. All people are created in God's image to be different, beautiful, unique, and a beloved child of God. You are accepted and affirmed just as you are -- with all your differences and all your gifts.
324 N. Third St., DeKalb, IL, 60115Service times
- Friday 9am
Phone: (815) 758-0643 · Website: http://firstdekalb.org/
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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 DeKalb's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship for August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (16.6–38.6%)
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.3–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
DeKalb city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,276 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- First United Methodist Church of DeKalb — 0 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- DeKalb Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb — 0.2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Foursquare Church of De Kalb — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Congregational United — 0.3 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- First Baptist Church of DeKalb — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Templehead — 0.5 mi away in Dekalb, IL
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Free Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in Dekalb, IL
- Salem Lutheran Church — 4.2 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint John — 4.9 mi away in Sycamore, IL