Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 300 E Bow Dr in Cherokee, IA 51012. It is one of 14 churches in Cherokee, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
United in Christ through God’s Word & Sacraments, we worship the Triune God, grow in faith, serve our neighbor, and share Christ’s love with all people.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is affiliated with The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Western Iowa Synod - ELCA.
300 E Bow Dr, Cherokee, IA, 51012Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (712) 299-8046 · Website: https://www.bethlehemcherokee.com/
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 15,905 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (14.4–36.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- First Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 1 mi away
- Cross Roads Christian Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Faith in Christ Fellowship Church — 1.4 mi away
- Meriden Evangelical Free Church — 5 mi away in Meriden, IA
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 6.2 mi away in Aurelia, IA
- Pilgrim Lutheran Church — 10.3 mi away in Quimby, IA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 13.7 mi away in Alta, IA
- Peace Lutheran Church — 13.8 mi away in Marcus, IA