First Evangelical Lutheran Church

First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 220 5th St W in Hector, MN 55342-1029. It is one of 6 churches in Hector, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.

we believe that we are freed in Christ to serve and love our neighbor.

Serving since 1890 · Part of Southwestern Minnesota Synod

220 5th St W, Hector, MN, 55342-1029

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · mornings

Phone: (320) 848-2845 · Website: https://www.firstlutheranhector.org/_wpez/

First Evangelical 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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The community around First Evangelical Lutheran Church

It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 32.3%
  • Obesity: 39.2%
  • Depression: 23.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
  • Diabetes: 13.7%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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