Emanuel First Lutheran
Emanuel First Lutheran is a Lutheran church at 101 North Capitol Avenue in Lansing, MI 48906. It is one of 204 churches in Lansing, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.
A place of worship, community, and belonging. All are welcome to seek, rest, and grow in faith together.
101 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI, 48906Phone: (517) 485-4118 · Website: http://www.emanuelfirst.org/
Emanuel First Lutheran is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 917 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 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 Emanuel First Lutheran
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 36.9% (19.7–54.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (1.8–19.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lansing city is served by 58 churches — about one congregation for every 1,960 residents.
Churches near Emanuel First Lutheran
- Ecumencial Ecclesial Church — 0.1 mi away
- Franklin Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Matthew AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Weavers Of The Web, Atc — 0.3 mi away
- Red Cedar Friends Meeting — 0.4 mi away
- Living Word Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Love Apostolic Temple — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Living Word Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away in East Lansing, MI