Bethem Baptist Church
Bethem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philadelphia, PA 19132. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, PA, 19132Bethem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Bethem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 more than 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Poverty Rate: 41.4% (24.9–57.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 19.0% (4.4–33.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Bethem Baptist Church
- Morning Star Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Redeem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Screen Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sanctuary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Love, Faith, & Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Harvest Prayer Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Redeem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sanctuary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dauphin Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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