Bethany Lutheran Church
Bethany Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Elmira, NY 14904. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We are a Faith Community in partnership with our neighbors, discerning needs with dignity and respect, in service together to benefit all of God's kingdom, through Christ.
Elmira, NY, 14904Service times
- Thursday 11am
Phone: (607) 734-8669 · Website: https://www.bethanylutheranelmira.org/
Bethany Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 525 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across New York — 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.
Find Bethany Lutheran Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Upcoming events at Bethany Lutheran Church
- Thu, Aug 6 · 12 PM: Fiber Arts
- Thu, Aug 6 · 2 PM: Gal's Game Day
- Sat, Aug 8 · 9 AM: Pilates
- Sat, Aug 8 · 9:30 AM: Yoga
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10:30 AM: Worship
From Bethany Lutheran Church's public calendar (https://www.bethanylutheranelmira.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Bethany Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 41.8% (23.0–61.0%)
- Unemployment: 14.2% (6.1–22.2%)
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 27.3% (17.0–37.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near Bethany Lutheran Church
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Alliance Christian & Missionary Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Elmira Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — 13.3 mi away in Corning, NY
- Swedish Emanuel Lutheran Church — 13.9 mi away in Corning, NY
- Saint Paul's Lutheran Church — 18.7 mi away in Spencer, NY
- Spencer Federated Church — 18.9 mi away in Spencer, NY