Bethel Lutheran Church
Bethel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 5658 North Denver Avenue in Portland, OR 97217. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 32 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Bethel Lutheran Church is a community whose mission is to worship together, to proclaim the good news of grace, and to show hospitality to all people. We will grow in faith through sharing, learning, nurturing, and supporting one another, and doing Christ’s work in the world.
5658 North Denver Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217Phone: (503) 285-4919 · Website: https://bethelpdx.org/
Bethel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 214 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Oregon — 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 Bethel Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portland city is served by 353 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.
Churches near Bethel Lutheran Church
- Albina Christian Life Center — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- The Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blessed Temple Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Del Dios Viviente — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Full Gospel Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Walker Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Lifeline Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northminster Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Leaven Community — 2 mi away
- Portsmouth Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Augustana Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away