Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1915 North 1st Street in Dekalb, IL 60115. It is one of 31 churches in Dekalb.
We offer an open table of communion and invite all people to gather, heal, grow, and find their purpose in the life, leadership, and mission of Bethlehem Lutheran Church as we live our lives in the fullness and promise of God’s love.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is proud to be a Reconciled in Christ Congregation, welcoming people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
1915 North 1st Street, Dekalb, IL, 60115Service times
- Monday 3pm–5pm
- Thursday 9:30am–11:30am
Phone: +1 815 758 3203 · Website: https://bethlehemdekalb.org/
Bethlehem 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.
Ministries at Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- Food Pantry
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The community around Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 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: 32.6%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (5.1–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
DeKalb city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,276 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- City Light Church — 0.2 mi away
- Glad Tidings Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Hillcrest Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Rock Community Chruch — 0.9 mi away in DeKalb, IL
- First Congregational United — 1 mi away
- St Paul's Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 1 mi away in DeKalb, IL
- Church of Templehead — 1.1 mi away
- The Abbey College Church — 1.2 mi away
- DeKalb Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- First Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in DeKalb, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away in DeKalb, IL
- Grace Free Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 3.2 mi away in Sycamore, IL
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint John — 4 mi away in Sycamore, IL