Bethany Lutheran Church

Bethany Lutheran Church is a church at 2029,2031 North 38th Street in Milwaukee, WI 53208. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee.

Bethany Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). We trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation and hold to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired Word of God. Our life together is grounded in God’s gifts of Word and Sacrament.

2029,2031 North 38th Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53208

Service times

  • Sunday 10am · Worship
  • Sunday 9am · School
  • Sunday 9am

Bethany Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,319 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Wisconsin — 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.

  • Obesity: 50.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 50.5%
  • Social Isolation: 43.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 36.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.8% (19.7–45.9%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 25.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.9%
  • Diabetes: 19.5%
  • Child Poverty: 33.1% (16.3–54.1%)
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Milwaukee city is served by 302 churches — about one congregation for every 1,887 residents.

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