First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Portsmouth, OH 45662. It is one of 81 churches in Portsmouth.

Portsmouth, OH, 45662

Shares a ministry location with Covenant Reformed Baptist Church.

First 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 Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.

  • Child Poverty: 76.8%
  • Obesity: 50.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.6% (30.4–56.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
  • Depression: 33.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 32.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
  • Diabetes: 18.4%
  • Social Isolation: 38.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
  • Unemployment: 11.2% (1.7–20.9%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5% (10.3–17.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Portsmouth city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 413 residents.

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