First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Bemidji, MN 56601. It is one of 43 churches in Bemidji, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
"Christ's Love, Transforming Lives to Go!"
Bemidji, MN, 56601Service times
- Sunday 8am · we gather to Worship
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,487 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 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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Latest from FirstLutheranBemidji's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship - September 20, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 35.2%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (17.9–33.7%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Child Poverty: 28.2% (16.5–40.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (4.2–10.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Bemidji city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 686 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Bemidji United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Philip's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- People's Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- All Saints of North America Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany Free Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Science Society — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church of Wilton — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- People's Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Free Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away