First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Kearney, NE 68847. It is one of 56 churches in Kearney, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.
First Lutheran Church in Kearney, Nebraska, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). This is Christ’s Church. There is a place for you here. We are the church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. Liberated by our faith, we embrace you as a whole person — questions, complexities and all. Join us as we do God’s work in Christ’s name for the life of the world.
Kearney, NE, 68847Service times
- Saturday 6pm
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 546 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Nebraska — 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
- Christian Education
- Volunteer Opportunities
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The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 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: 38.3%
- Social Isolation: 28.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (3.1–21.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kearney city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 582 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Living Faith Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Outpost — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of Kearney — 0.3 mi away
- Kearney Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Foursquare Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Summit Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Campus Lutheran Ministry — 1.2 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Family of Christ Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away