Bethlehem Baptist Church

Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 26147.

WV, 26147

Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 Bethlehem Baptist Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

  • Child Poverty: 50.5% (35.2–65.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 33.2% (22.0–44.3%)
  • Diabetes: 21.1%
  • Obesity: 40.9%
  • Social Isolation: 32.9%
  • Depression: 31.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
  • Unemployment: 11.1% (3.8–18.5%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (5.3–22.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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