Welcome to the web site of Immanuel Lutheran Church in downtown Evanston. Please explore this web site to see what is going on in our congregation and what we offer.

Our church is now fully accessible. An elevator is at the parking lot door. The goal of our accessibility project has been to reach out to the whole community as well as to make our facilities more accessible to our members. We are a small congregation that reaches out to others in many ways.

We invite you to join us for worship and fellowship and to see if this might be the right congregation for you. Our congregation is known for its warm hospitality to all visitors, as well as its rich liturgical and musical traditions and hands-on social ministry projects.

We believe that God comes to us in Jesus Christ through the preaching of the word of God and the administration of the sacraments of Christ. The Holy Spirit creates and enlivens faith through these outward means of grace. This faith is actualized in works of love for our neighbors near and far.

The people of God have been gathering to worship in our present location since 1888. Our worship life preserves the best of Christian tradition throughout the centuries, as well as the vital Lutheran emphasis on God's love for us in Jesus Christ. We offer traditional but lively worship, with vigorous congregational singing. Our Sunday morning services include Scriptural preaching and weekly celebration of Holy Communion. We invite you to join us for worship and for fellowship and refreshments after the service, when parish announcements are made and where some of the social life of our parish occurs. We also invite you to participate in our programs for education and service and in other events of our parish life.

We believe that it is important that our activities include everyone in the community, young and old. We welcome children in our services as we welcome them in our lives. Our social events include everyone, young and old. We hope that they will include you as well.