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About Bethlehem
We are called to be a regional center for Missouri Synod Lutheran Christianity, cultivating remarkable worship and the gifts necessary for that, providing multiple paths of intentional Christian growth [especially our day school], and seasoning the entire thing with a noticeable love for Jesus Christ and for one another.

 

Mission Statement
Bethlehem Lutheran Church and School is called, as a regional center for Missouri Synod Lutheran Christianity, to be an equipping place that helps as many people as possible experience
the fullness of life in Jesus:

Cultivating remarkable worship, that people would receive and respond to God’s gifts, Intentionally discipling, that people would become more like Jesus, and Nurturing significant relationships, that people would grow spiritually by sharing together their life in Jesus.

Features

  • Two worship sites running simultaneously on the same campus
  • 1,200 in worship on a weekend
  • Saturday – Contemporary worship, Sunday - Traditional and Contemporary worship
  • MIDI technology (computer controlled instruments) integrated into contemporary worship
  • Dynamic leadership training for ministry team leaders
  • Thriving and well-organized LifeLight Bible study program for 300+ adults
  • Day school ranked consistently in Denver’s top 25 private schools.
  • 370 in the Day school, Preschool through 8th grade
  • Expanding rotational Children’s Ministry
  • Youth Coffee Shop/Ministry Center opened in 2004
  • Fall musicals drawing crowds of 2,000 on a weekend
  • Mission field is the 100 foot circle around each member
  • A staff that works and plays well together
  • Emphasis on staff health/wellness and healthy boundaries
  • Team-based governance
  • Ownership of a medical complex divided between church use and medical tenants
  • Willingness to try new things
  • Identity as a “sending place” with several internship programs including a vicar
  • Family Ministry Resource Center to strengthen family life

 

Worship Times
(Sunday)

8:00 AM - Traditional in the Church
8:00 AM - Contemporary in the Chapel
9:15 AM - Contemporary in the Church
10:30 AM - Contemporary in the Church
10:30 AM - Traditional in the Chapel

Saturday

5:30 PM - Praise & Worship with Communion in the Chapel

Location

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
2100 N. Wadsworth Blvd.
Lakewood, CO 80214
(303) 238-7676
bethlehem@bethluth.net

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Becoming a Member

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