Bethel Memorial Church

The community around Bethel Memorial Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Poverty Rate: 29.2% (15.7–42.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Food Insecurity: 21.0%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
• Depression: 24.2%

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

Churches near Bethel Memorial Church

• Persimmon Mill Church — 1.5 mi away
• First Pentecostal Lighthouse Church — 3.9 mi away
• Crane Creek Church — 4.1 mi away
• Wolf Creek Church — 4.3 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Saucier, MS
• Shiloh Church — 5.6 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• Galilee Church — 5.7 mi away
• Old Barth Community Church — 5.9 mi away
• Saint Matthew the Apostle Catholic Church — 6.2 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• Saint Ann Catholic Church — 6.4 mi away in Lizana, MS