First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 600 King Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
600 King Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 222 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Virginia — 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 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (16.8–33.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.2%
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near First Lutheran Church
- New St. Mark C.O.G.I.C — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fourth Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Unity Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Norfolk, VA
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