First Evangelical Center
First Evangelical Center is a Lutheran church at 728 Villa Street in Racine, WI 53403. It is one of 106 churches in Racine, and one of 14 Lutheran congregations in the city.
728 Villa Street, Racine, WI, 53403Phone: (262) 633-8267 · Website: https://www.firstracine.org/
First Evangelical Center is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,319 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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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The community around First Evangelical Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 59.5% (41.5–77.5%)
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 36.8% (24.6–49.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (5.2–17.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.9–17.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Racine city is served by 49 churches — about one congregation for every 1,188 residents.
Churches near First Evangelical Center
- Fellowship of Christian Believers Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fellowship church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Light Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sports shopping — 0.1 mi away
- Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cristo Rey — 0.2 mi away
- Dominion Church of God MPGT — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Holy Communion Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Saint John's Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Our Saviour's Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Atonement Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away