Where is First Lutheran Church located?

First Lutheran Church is at 424 S 8th St, Brainerd, MN, 56401-3624.

What time are services at First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church meets Monday, Tuesday at 9am (- - -). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church in Brainerd, MN is a Lutheran church. It is one of 5 Lutheran congregations in Brainerd.

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 424 S 8th St in Brainerd, MN 56401-3624. It is one of 25 churches in Brainerd, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.

424 S 8th St, Brainerd, MN, 56401-3624

Service times

Monday, Tuesday 9am · - - -

Phone: +12188299552 · Website: http://flcbrainerd.com/

First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,482 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 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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Latest from FLC Brainerd's YouTube channel: FLC Worship 8.02.2026 (all videos).

The community around First Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 39.7%
Social Isolation: 29.9%
Depression: 25.5%
Food Insecurity: 15.6%
Unemployment: 7.0% (3.0–11.0%)

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

Churches near First Lutheran Church

Communitas Church — 0.2 mi away
Oak Street Chapel — 0.2 mi away
Youth For Christ — 0.3 mi away
Zion Lutheran Church (LCMS) — 0.4 mi away
Park United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
High Praise Brainerd Lakes — 0.4 mi away
St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
St. Francis Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
Risen Church — 0.5 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

Zion Lutheran Church (LCMS) — 0.4 mi away
Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
Lord of Life Lutheran Church — 3.6 mi away in Baxter, MN
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 4 mi away in Baxter, MN

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