Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 30997 Gerken Road in Defiance, OH 43512. It is one of 72 churches in Defiance, and one of 6 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is community of sinners trusting in the forgiveness given by the crucified and risen Christ, offering peace, joy, stability, and purpose to a despairing and chaotic wo9rld by sharing this gospel through our words and deeds.
Part of Maumee Valley Conference
30997 Gerken Road, Defiance, OH, 43512Service times
- Sunday 10am
Website: https://www.bethlehemokolona.org/
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 768 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 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
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Florida United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Florida, OH
- Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Saint Michaels Catholic Church — 4 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- St. Paul Lutheran Church — 4.7 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Saint Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Zion Church — 5 mi away in Napoleon, OH
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 3.3 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church — 3.5 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- St. Paul Lutheran Church — 4.7 mi away in Napoleon, OH
- Saint Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away