Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 601 Fillmore Street in Gary, IN 46402. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 8 Lutheran congregations in the city.
601 Fillmore Street, Gary, IN, 46402Bethlehem Evangelical 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.
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The community around Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 54.1%
- Food Insecurity: 48.5%
- Poverty Rate: 46.6% (27.7–65.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 26.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (2.5–15.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Cathedral of the Holy Angels — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Hall of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- River of Life Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Healing Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Crossroads Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Honterus Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint Philip Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 3.8 mi away