First Evangelical Lutheran Church
First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church at 115 N 14th St in Murphysboro, IL 62966-2007. It is one of 31 churches in Murphysboro.
115 N 14th St, Murphysboro, IL, 62966-2007Phone: +16186871483 · Website: https://murphysboro.com/
First Evangelical 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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The community around First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (2.0–16.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (8.2–27.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Evangelical Lutheran Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Murphysboro United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peters United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- City Hope Church — 0.2 mi away
- SFC Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elm Street Southern Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ The King Lutheran Church — 6.3 mi away in De Soto, IL
- Epiphany Lutheran Church — 6.6 mi away in Carbondale, IL
- Mt Calvary Lutheran Church — 7 mi away in De Soto, IL
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 7.3 mi away in Carbondale, IL
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