First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 3001 Whitis Avenue in Austin, TX 78705. It is one of 752 churches in Austin, and one of 20 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Serving since 1936 · Part of Southwestern Texas Synod
3001 Whitis Avenue, Austin, TX, 78705Service times
- Sunday 10am · mornings we worship
Phone: (512) 478-1933 · Website: https://www.felcaustin.org/
Shares a ministry location with Austin Central Hispana and Felcdc.
First English Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 753 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Texas — 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 English Lutheran Church's YouTube channel: Reign of Christ the King Sunday | November 22, 2026, 10:00 a.m. (all videos).
The community around First English Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,400 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.
- Poverty Rate: 56.3%
- Depression: 28.7%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.9–13.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (8.9–16.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Austin city is served by 318 churches — about one congregation for every 2,992 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- Felcdc — 0 mi away
- Austin Central Hispana — 0 mi away
- Shelton Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Texas Canterbury — 0.3 mi away
- All Saints' Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Diocese of Austin — 0.4 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hyde Park Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Congregational Church of Austin — 0.6 mi away
- Hyde Park Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- LuMin — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- St. Martin's Ev. Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 3 mi away