Bethany Lutheran Church

Bethany Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 703 Broadway Street in Emmetsburg, IA 50536. It is one of 10 churches in Emmetsburg, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.

703 Broadway Street, Emmetsburg, IA, 50536

Phone: (712) 852-4450 · Website: http://www.bethanylutheranemmetsburg.com/

Bethany 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.

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The community around Bethany Lutheran Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 40.9%
  • Child Poverty: 37.9% (21.7–54.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 31.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.0% (11.9–24.2%)
  • Diabetes: 13.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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