Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 959 12th Street in Oakland, CA 94607. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Serving since 1929 · Part of Sierra Pacific Synod
959 12th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (510) 452-2245 · Website: https://blcoakblog.wordpress.com/
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 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.
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The community around Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 29.1%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (4.6–20.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (14.6–37.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- West Oakland Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Puerta del Cielo — 0.1 mi away in Richmond, CA
- Mingleton Temple — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Coopers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- First Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away in Alameda, CA
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Alameda, CA
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