First Evangelical Lutheran Church
First Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 215 East Laurel Street in Philipsburg, PA 16866. It is one of 19 churches in Philipsburg.
215 East Laurel Street, Philipsburg, PA, 16866First Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,011 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Child Poverty: 24.2% (6.3–42.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (5.2–22.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philipsburg borough is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 332 residents.
Churches near First Evangelical Lutheran Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Center — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Philipsburg — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church of Philipsburg — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Well — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St John's Lutheran Church — 5.5 mi away in Winburne, PA
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 7.3 mi away in Lanse, PA
- St. John Lutheran Church — 14.3 mi away in Clearfield, PA
- First English Lutheran Church — 15.4 mi away in Tyrone, PA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 16.9 mi away in State College, PA
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