First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 524 South I Street in Tacoma, WA 98405. It is one of 382 churches in Tacoma, and one of 18 Lutheran congregations in the city.

We see worship as a time to renew our call to teach, baptize, and make disciples (Matthew 28:16-20).

524 South I Street, Tacoma, WA, 98405

Service times

  • Saturday 10:30am · nights in chapel
  • Saturday 5pm
  • Sunday 10:30am

First 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 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. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, 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.

  • Depression: 28.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.8% (17.3–30.4%)
  • Obesity: 38.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Tacoma city is served by 163 churches — about one congregation for every 1,366 residents.

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