First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1555 40th Avenue Northeast in Columbia Heights, MN 55421. It is one of 16 churches in Columbia Heights.
First Lutheran Staff are committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and faith-filled community through servant leadership modeled by Jesus Christ.
Wheelchair accessible
1555 40th Avenue Northeast, Columbia Heights, MN, 55421Phone: (763) 788-9653 · Website: https://flcch.org/
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.
Ministries at First Lutheran Church
- After School Program
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Latest from First Lutheran Church Columbia Heights's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 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: 38.9%
- Social Isolation: 31.4%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Food Insecurity: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Columbia Heights city is served by 1 churches — about one congregation for every 22,827 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostes El Alto Y Eterno Dios — 0.5 mi away
- Church Of All Nations — 0.5 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
- Heaven Evangelical Church Of Minnesota — 0.5 mi away
- The Apostles' Continuation Church International — 0.5 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
- Community United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pan De Vida Minnesota Ministerios Ebenezer — 0.5 mi away
- Minnesota Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- One Reason Church — 0.6 mi away
- Minnesota Korean Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St Matthew Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Mt Carmel Lutheran Church (ELCA) — 1.3 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
- Nativity Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away in St. Anthony, MN
- Casa Oracion MSP — 1.3 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away in Minneapolis, MN
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