Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 720 S 2nd St in Mankato, MN 56001-3810. It is one of 42 churches in Mankato, and one of 3 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
“Bethlehem is an inviting community that is growing in Christ, loving our neighbors, and serving God's world.”
Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Mankato is a congregation of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Lovingly called, “The Welcome Place,” we open our hearts and hands to the full spectrum of God’s people and creation.
Serving since 1919 · Part of Southeastern MN Synod
720 S 2nd St, Mankato, MN, 56001-3810Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: +15073882925 · Website: https://www.blcmankato.org/
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,482 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 15,756 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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Latest from Bethlehem Lutheran Mankato's YouTube channel: Memorial Service for Gerald "Jerry" Bastian | June 20, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethlehem 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 40.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- St John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Holy Christian Church Mankato — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Plenitud — 0.2 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trunorth International Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Mankato — 0.4 mi away
- St. Mary's Church, New England, — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry Crossroads — 1 mi away
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away in North Mankato, MN
- Our Savior's Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away