The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word is a Lutheran church at 597 East Avenue in Rochester, NY 14607. It is one of 423 churches in Rochester, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are a community of faith who believes that loving God and loving neighbor are all that matter.
Welcome to The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word. We are a congregation of the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Part of Upstate New York Synod
597 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14607Phone: (585) 244-6065 · Website: https://www.incarnatewordelca.org/
The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 537 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New York — 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 The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
- Mustard Seed Kitchen
- Dominican Healthcare Ministry
- Family Promise of Greater Rochester (RAIHN)
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Latest from Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY's YouTube channel: 2026-09-13 Sunday Morning Worship - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rochester city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 5,541 residents.
Churches near The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
- Third Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Road Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church Of Christ, Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Plymouth Spiritualist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Ministry of the Deaf, Rochester, NY — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- LifeTree Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Lifenet Apostolic Network — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Lutheran Church of the Reformation — 0.8 mi away
- Community Lutheran Ministry — 2.2 mi away
- Atonement Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi away
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