First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Richmond, VA 23220. It is one of 584 churches in Richmond, and one of 10 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are a Lutheran Community, celebrating the gospel of Jesus Christ and striving toward faithful living in God's world.
Richmond, VA, 23220Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · morning
First English 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.
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Latest from First English Lutheran Church Richmond, VA's YouTube channel: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 13, 2026 (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 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: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (18.2–32.0%)
- Depression: 26.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.2–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- City Church of Richmond — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Community COGIC RVA — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- ReJOYce In Jesus Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Commonwealth Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Community Chapel — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away