Where is First Lutheran Church located?

First Lutheran Church is at 235 East Genesee Street, Iron River, MI, 49935.

What time are services at First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church meets Sunday at 10am. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church in Iron River, MI is a Lutheran church. It is one of 5 Lutheran congregations in Iron River.

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 235 East Genesee Street in Iron River, MI 49935. It is one of 24 churches in Iron River, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Complementary to our vision is a list of mission statements describing how we can make a difference in the lives of the people around us.

First Lutheran Church of Iron River is a congregation in the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). We serve the communities of Iron County, MI, and provide a Christian community for all to belong and gather for worship and praise!

Part of Northern Great Lakes Synod

235 East Genesee Street, Iron River, MI, 49935

Service times

Sunday 10am

Phone: (906) 265-9518 · Website: http://www.firstlutheranironriver.com/

First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 908 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 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.

Find First Lutheran Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around First Lutheran Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

Obesity: 41.3%
Depression: 27.4%
Poverty Rate: 22.2% (14.4–30.0%)
Diabetes: 15.6%
Social Isolation: 30.6%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
Food Insecurity: 17.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Iron River city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 190 residents.

Churches near First Lutheran Church

Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
Iron River Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
Upper Peninsula River Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Agnes Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
Catholic Yooper Faithful — 0.5 mi away
Lakeland Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Peters Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away
Finnish Lutheran Church — 5.8 mi away

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