Bethlehem Church
Bethlehem Church is a Evangelical Lutheran Church In America church at 1686 6th St., NC, 28602 in Hickory, NC 28602. It is one of 165 churches in Hickory, and one of 4 Evangelical Lutheran Church In America congregations in the city.
At Bethlehem Lutheran Church, we believe that we are called to be a Bold, Loving, Community.
We are a multi-generational church. At Bethlehem you will find children and youth, young professionals and growing families, established households who have lived locally for decades, and retired individuals and couples.
1686 6th St., NC, 28602, Hickory, NC, 28602Service times
- Sunday 11am · morning weekly Worship Service begins
Phone: (828) 327-3600 · Website: https://www.bethlehemhickory.org/
Bethlehem Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 255 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across North Carolina — 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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The community around Bethlehem Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Child Poverty: 34.1% (19.7–48.4%)
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (14.8–29.4%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (8.0–19.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethlehem Church
- HIS Image Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.8 mi away in Newton, NC
- Augustana Church — 1 mi away
- Hillside Church — 1 mi away in Brookford, NC
- The Rock Of Israel Congregation — 1 mi away
- Hickory Foundation Bible Church — 1.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Catawba Valley — 1.2 mi away
- Faith United Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
- Vintage City Church — 1.3 mi away
- Temple Church — 1.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- St Andrews Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church — 2.5 mi away in Newton, NC
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- St Timothy Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
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