Pilgrim Lutheran Church
Pilgrim Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 5500 Massachusetts Avenue in Bethesda, MD 20816. It is one of 47 churches in Bethesda, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
The purpose of Pilgrim Lutheran is to welcome God’s people and be faithful to His Word.
Pilgrim Lutheran Church is ultimately not a building or place. The Church is people. It is the type of people we are that makes us unique.
5500 Massachusetts Avenue, Bethesda, MD, 20816Service times
- Sunday 8:15am
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (301) 229-2800 · Website: http://pilgrimbethesda.org/
Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 289 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Maryland — 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.
Ministries at Pilgrim Lutheran Church
- Children's Sunday School
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The community around Pilgrim 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 say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.1–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pilgrim Lutheran Church
- Saint Dunstan's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Little Flower — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Soorp Khatch Armenian Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Washington Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fourth Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Self Revelation Church of Absolute Monism — 0.8 mi away
- Golden Lotus Temple — 0.8 mi away
- Brookmont Community Church — 1.1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
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- Christ Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 4 mi away in Washington, DC
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4.1 mi away in Washington, DC
- Georgetown Lutheran Church — 4.1 mi away in Washington, DC