Where is First Lutheran Church located?

First Lutheran Church is at 1701 19th St., Parkersburg, WV, 26101.

What time are services at First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church meets Tuesday, Saturday at 9:30am (Women s Bible Study); Tuesday, Saturday at 6pm (Women s Bible Study). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Lutheran Church?

First Lutheran Church in Parkersburg, WV is a Lutheran church.

First Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1701 19th St. in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg.

Come see God’s love in action at First Lutheran.

First Lutheran Church has been offering the Mid Ohio Valley family-focused, Bible-based contemporary and traditional services since 1892.

1701 19th St., Parkersburg, WV, 26101

Service times

Tuesday, Saturday 9:30am · Women s Bible Study
Tuesday, Saturday 6pm · Women s Bible Study

Phone: (304) 489-1178 · Website: http://firstlutheranparkersburg.com/

First Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across West 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.

Ministries at First Lutheran Church

Food pantry
Community garden
Prescription drug assistance program
Backpack Ministry
Faithlink

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The community around First Lutheran Church

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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

Obesity: 46.8%
Depression: 34.5%
Social Isolation: 33.5%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.8–32.1%)
Food Insecurity: 20.5%
Diabetes: 17.2%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
Unemployment: 9.0% (3.4–14.6%)
Housing Insecurity: 15.2%

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

Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.

Churches near First Lutheran Church

First Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Parkersburg Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
Baptist Temple — 0.3 mi away
The Journey on Park Avenue — 0.3 mi away
First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
Gateway Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.4 mi away
Lynn Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away

More Lutheran churches nearby

St Paul Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
Christ Lutheran Church — 4.3 mi away in Vienna, WV
Crown of Life Evangelical Lutheran Church — 11 mi away in Marietta, OH
St Luke's Lutheran Church — 11 mi away in Marietta, OH

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