First Immanuel Lutheran Church

First Immanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1816 Northwest Irving Street in Portland, OR 97209. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 32 Lutheran congregations in the city.

As members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), our shared faith comes through the good news of Jesus Christ and gives us the freedom and courage to wonder, discover, and boldly participate in what God is up to in the world.

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1816 Northwest Irving Street, Portland, OR, 97209

Service times

  • Sunday 11am
  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (503) 226-3659 · Website: https://www.firstimmanuelluth.org/

First Immanuel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 214 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Oregon — 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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Latest from First Immanuel Lutheran Church, Portland Oregon's YouTube channel: September 20, 2026 service (all videos).

The community around First Immanuel Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Depression: 34.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.2% (12.8–33.6%)
  • Unemployment: 10.2% (2.8–17.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Portland city is served by 353 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.

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