Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 5966 West Rice Street in Chicago, IL 60651. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 14 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.
5966 West Rice Street, Chicago, IL, 60651Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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 Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third 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 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (5.7–18.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.2–29.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Truevine Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Healing Center Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Transformation Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Truth And Deliverance Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Goodway Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- No Limit Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Jordan River Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Circle Evangelical Free Church — 0.1 mi away
- Family Altar Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Community Advent Christian — 0.1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Austin Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away in Oak Park, IL
- Community Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- United Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away in Oak Park, IL