First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1301 Colley Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23517. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
As followers of Jesus, we live in a state of grace. We don’t always get everything right, but we trust God’s forgiveness and love.
1301 Colley Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23517First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 227 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Virginia — 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.
Ministries at First Lutheran Church
- Feeding ministries
- Housing the homeless
- Laundry Love
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The community around First Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Depression: 23.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- Saint Andrew Protestant Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark RZUA Church — 0.3 mi away
- Big House Church — 0.3 mi away
- Colonial Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ghent United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- Unity Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away