First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church in Lancaster, OH 43130. It is one of 93 churches in Lancaster, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
Our mission has always been to live out the love of God in Christ Jesus, here where we are planted.
We are a congregation with nearly 180 years of service to the Gospel of Jesus, located in southern central Ohio about 30 miles south-southeast of Columbus.
Lancaster, OH, 43130Website: http://www.firstenglishlancaster.org/
First English Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 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 English Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 16.2% (8.8–23.7%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Depression: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (14.2–32.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (6.7–22.7%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lancaster city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 733 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mills Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Risen Lord — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Church Of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- The Bridge — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- City of Life — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Peter Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Orthodox Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- The Lutheran Church of Our Savior — 1.5 mi away