Central Lutheran Church

Central Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 925 North Forest Street in Bellingham, WA 98225. It is one of 95 churches in Bellingham, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.

925 North Forest Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225

Shares a ministry location with St. Brendan's Anglican Church in Bellingham.

Central Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 423 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Washington — 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 Central 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults here carry depression. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 40.0%
  • Depression: 38.2%
  • Unemployment: 11.6% (7.1–16.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Bellingham city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 2,233 residents.

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