Where is First Lutheran Church located?

First Lutheran Church is at 1337 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton, NJ, 07013.

What time are services at First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church meets Sunday at 11am (School). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church in Clifton, NJ is a Lutheran church.

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1337 Van Houten Avenue in Clifton, NJ 07013. It is one of 55 churches in Clifton.

We are ...a place where all people are welcomed and encouraged to share their gifts.a caring community seeking to teach, share, and live God's Word as found in Jesus Christ.a place where children and teenagers are loved and valued.always seeking opportunities to respond to others in need within the

First Lutheran is one of 172 Lutheran congregations in the New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

1337 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton, NJ, 07013

Service times

Sunday 11am · School

Phone: (973) 777-2617 · Website: https://www.firstlutheranclifton.com/

First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 231 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New Jersey — 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 First Lutheran Church of Clifton, NJ's YouTube channel: 09/13/26 - God's Work Our Hands - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Worship (all videos).

The community around First Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here were born in another country. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Social Isolation: 34.7%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Clifton city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 4,259 residents.

Churches near First Lutheran Church

St. Gregorios Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
Ukranian Holy Ascention Church — 0.3 mi away
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
La Iglesia Del Pueblo — 0.3 mi away
Jesus Christ Ministries AG Church — 0.3 mi away
Love Global Vision Church — 0.3 mi away
Clifton Church — 0.4 mi away
Garden State Church — 0.6 mi away
Zion Church of God — 0.7 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
St. John Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Passaic, NJ
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 3 mi away in Paterson, NJ
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away in Nutley, NJ
Zion Lutheran Church — 3.6 mi away in Garfield, NJ

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