First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1019 West 5th Street in Lorain, OH 44052. It is one of 119 churches in Lorain, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.
First Lutheran is a congregation of the ELCA located in the heart of downtown Lorain, Ohio.
Serving since 2009
1019 West 5th Street, Lorain, OH, 44052Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · WORSHIP
Phone: (858) 945-9573 · Website: http://www.firstlutheranlorain.org/
First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 768 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 15,755 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
- Food Assistance
- Housing Support
- International Mission Support
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The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.8%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.0% (25.9–44.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Unemployment: 22.6% (9.7–35.5%)
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Child Poverty: 25.0% (11.0–39.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (6.6–20.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lorain city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,166 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Christian Temple — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Deliverance Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- God's Kingdom Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Gods Kngdom Church — 0.1 mi away
- Heart of God Kingdom Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Lorain Lighthouse United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Victory Christian Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Redeemer — 0.2 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Lord of Life Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- Christ Evangelical Lutheran — 2.8 mi away
- Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away in Amherst, OH