Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 201 East Watauga Avenue in Johnson City, TN 37601. It is one of 211 churches in Johnson City, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Serving since 1929
201 East Watauga Avenue, Johnson City, TN, 37601Service times
- Sunday 8am
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: 423-926-5261 · Website: https://www.bethlehemjc.org/
Bethlehem Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 108 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Tennessee — 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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Latest from Bethlehem Lutheran Church - Johnson City, TN's YouTube channel: The Ninth Sunday After Trinity - August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethlehem 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 adults here carry depression, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Depression: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.5% (22.4–38.6%)
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (11.9–22.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Johnson City city is served by 63 churches — about one congregation for every 1,050 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Lutheran Church
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vance Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church (Historic) — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Main Street Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Living Word Lutheran Church — 7 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 7.2 mi away in Elizabethton, TN
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 7.5 mi away in Elizabethton, TN
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