Bethany Lutheran Church
Bethany Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 76 West Crystal Lake Avenue in Crystal Lake, IL 60014. It is one of 39 churches in Crystal Lake, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We reflect Christ in mission and action.
76 West Crystal Lake Avenue, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · worship service
Phone: (815) 893-9384 · Website: http://bethanylc.com/
Bethany Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 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.
Ministries at Bethany Lutheran Church
- Global Mission Support
- Lutheran World Relief Fair Coffee
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Latest from Bethany Lutheran Church, Crystal Lake's YouTube channel: Funeral Service for Kendy Lynn Walor - 3 pm Friday, September 18, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethany Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 31.9%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.7–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Crystal Lake city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 2,761 residents.
Churches near Bethany Lutheran Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Crystal Lake — 0.3 mi away
- All Saints Church of Crystal Lake/McHenry County — 0.3 mi away
- Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Willow Creek Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Arising Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gospel Collective — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Lord and Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.4 mi away in Woodstock, IL
- Living Waters Lutheran Church — 4 mi away
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