First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 928 Poyntz Avenue in Manhattan, KS 66502. It is one of 86 churches in Manhattan, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
928 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS, 66502First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 222 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Kansas — 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 39.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5% (15.5–26.6%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Manhattan city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 969 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- The Church Of Swole — 0.2 mi away
- Manhattan Free Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mennonite Meetinghouse — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seven Dolors Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Family Worship Center International Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Methodist Education Center — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. Luke's — 0.9 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 4 mi away
- Saint Luke's Lutheran Church — 4.5 mi away