Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Obesity: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Child Poverty: 30.4% (18.1–42.9%)
• Depression: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.5%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Unemployment: 10.0% (4.3–15.8%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (13.8–27.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Morning Star Church — 0.6 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Shady Grove Church — 1.2 mi away
• Victory Church — 1.9 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Mount Zion Church — 2 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Saint Matthew Church — 2 mi away
• Adile Church — 2.1 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Alto Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Rayville, LA
• China Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
• Bright Water Church — 3.2 mi away in Rayville, LA
• Morning Star Church — 3.6 mi away