Bethany Lutheran Church

Bethany Lutheran Church is a church at 200 3rd Ave in Altoona, PA 16602-3928. It is one of 89 churches in Altoona.

200 3rd Ave, Altoona, PA, 16602-3928

Phone: (814) 944-7560 · Website: http://www.bethanylutheranchurch.net/

Bethany Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,011 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Bethany Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 34.2% (22.0–46.4%)
  • Obesity: 41.3%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
  • Child Poverty: 25.9% (8.9–42.9%)
  • Diabetes: 13.7%
  • Unemployment: 6.3% (1.5–11.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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