Bethel Lutheran Church

Bethel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Gary, IN 46403. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Gary, IN, 46403

Bethel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 353 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Indiana — 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 Bethel Lutheran Church

  • Food & Baby Pantry

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The community around Bethel Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Diabetes: 19.6%
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Unemployment: 9.0% (5.3–12.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 30.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.5% (7.9–27.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

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

Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.

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