First Evangelical Lutheran Church
First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 246 South Main Street in Greensburg, PA 15601. It is one of 64 churches in Greensburg, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Saved by Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit we share God’s love, through word and deed, in service to all of God’s Children.
First Evangelical Lutheran Church has grown from a very humble beginning in 1784 with a small group of people worshipping in the log school near the public spring in old St. Clair Cemetery (now St. Clair Park) to the present congregation worshipping in a cross topped, large brick building at the corner of Main and 3rd streets of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
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246 South Main Street, Greensburg, PA, 15601Service times
- Sunday 8:15am
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (724) 834-1469 · Website: https://felchurch.org/
First Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,004 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 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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The community around First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 25.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.0–23.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (0.3–16.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Greensburg city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 1,352 residents.
Churches near First Evangelical Lutheran Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- 1st Reformed UCC — 0.1 mi away
- Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- LifeSpring Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Parkview Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harrold Zion Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- St Matthias Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 2.6 mi away in Hempfield Twp, PA
- Harrold Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away
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