First Bethel Baptist Church
First Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bessemer, AL, 35020First Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 First Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.2%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (3.1–17.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near First Bethel Baptist Church
- Greater Sixteenth Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.5 mi away
- Willing Workers Prayer Bank Church — 0.5 mi away
- Blessed Assembly Fresh Fire — 0.6 mi away in Hueytown, AL
- Faith to Favor Worship Center — 0.6 mi away in Hueytown, AL
- Deeper Life United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Little Souls Saving Church — 0.6 mi away
- North Highlands Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away in Hueytown, AL
- Peoples Church — 0.7 mi away in Hueytown, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- McNeil Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carver — 0.9 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away