Bethany Church
Bethany Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 5627 North 95th Avenue West, Baxter, IA, 50028-8671 in Baxter, IA 50028. It is one of 4 churches in Baxter.
Because we at Bethany believe in the two great commandments Jesus taught — love God and love others –- we invite you to come, worship, and serve with us.
No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome at Bethany United Church of Christ, Baxter, Iowa.
5627 North 95th Avenue West, Baxter, IA, 50028-8671, Baxter, IA, 50028Phone: (641) 227-3402 · Website: https://www.baxterbethanyucc.org/
Bethany Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 106 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Iowa — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
Find Bethany Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethany Church
It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Social Isolation: 29.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethany Church
- Baxter Evangelical Free Church — 1 mi away
- Baxter Church of the Way — 1.3 mi away
- Congregational United Church — 1.3 mi away
- Church of Christ Number 1 — 5.4 mi away in Newton, IA
- Wittemberg Church — 5.9 mi away in Newton, IA
- Union Chapel — 6.2 mi away
- New Horizons United Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Melbourne, IA
- Saint John United Church of Christ — 8.1 mi away in Melbourne, IA
- Ashton Church — 8.3 mi away
- Jasper County Church of Christ — 8.5 mi away in Newton, IA
More Congregational churches nearby
- Saint John United Church of Christ — 8.1 mi away in Melbourne, IA
- Newburg United Church of Christ — 18.1 mi away in Grinnell, IA
- Clemons United Church of Christ — 19.8 mi away in Clemons, IA
- First United Church of Christ — 19.9 mi away in Marshalltown, IA
- United Church of Christ — 21.6 mi away in Grinnell, IA