Bethesda Lutheran Church
Bethesda Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Clarinda, IA 51632. It is one of 22 churches in Clarinda, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Clarinda, IA, 51632Service times
- Saturday 5:30pm–6:30pm · nights -
- Sunday 9:30am–10:30am · mornings to
Bethesda Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Iowa — 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 Bethesda Lutheran Church
- Food pantry
- Clothing closet
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The community around Bethesda Lutheran Church
It takes 6.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. 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: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 30.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethesda Lutheran Church
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Rose Hill Church — 4 mi away
- Fremont Church — 4.8 mi away in Essex, IA
- Fremont Church — 5.8 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away
- Clarinda Methodist Church — 7.5 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 7.8 mi away
- First Christian Church — 7.9 mi away
- Saint Clare Catholic Church — 7.9 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 7.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 8.1 mi away in Yorktown, IA
- Mount Calvary Lutheran Church — 9.1 mi away in Villisca, IA