First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Shelby, OH 44875. It is one of 24 churches in Shelby.
We, the baptized persons of God are called, chosen, and anointed as a mission-driven church, guided by the Holy Spirit, teaching and living out the sacraments as commanded by Jesus.
Shelby, OH, 44875Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
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.
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Latest from Pastor Rus's YouTube channel: Worship 8 2 2026 (all videos).
The community around First Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 33.1%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Child Poverty: 23.0% (4.9–41.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.2–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Shelby city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 581 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- First Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shelby UCC — 0.4 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Shelby Alliance Church — 0.5 mi away
- Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity United — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Crouse Memorial Lutheran Church — 6.4 mi away in Tiro, OH
- Clay Memorial Lutheran Church — 6.6 mi away in Mansfield, OH
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 7.8 mi away in Crestline, OH
- First Lutheran Church — 7.8 mi away in Plymouth, OH
- St. Paul Lutheran Church — 9.1 mi away in Ontario, OH