Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 250 Commerce Avenue Southwest #100 in Grand Rapids, MI 49503. It is one of 420 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 2 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
Creating a loving, welcoming, and inclusive community in Christ’s name is an essential priority so that we, together, can be sent forth as agents of reconciliation.
We are community immersed in the wonderful gift of God’s grace. We also believe that this gift of grace, especially experienced in our resurrected savior, is meant for all.
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250 Commerce Avenue Southwest #100, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503Phone: (616) 456-1741 · Website: http://www.bethlehemchurchgr.org/
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 917 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 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.
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Latest from Bethlehem Church GR's YouTube channel: Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (all videos).
The community around Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 36.9%
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Depression: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (17.8–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.5–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- Mel Trotter Ministries (Rescue Mission) — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Andrew — 0.1 mi away
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids — 0.2 mi away
- City Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Central Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Power of the Cross — 0.2 mi away
- City Life Church-A Wesleyan Community — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Mission Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Campus Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- St James Church — 1.4 mi away
- Spirit and Life Team — 2.3 mi away
- St. James Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away