Sweet Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Sweet Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 8555 Sweet Bethel Dr E in Coden, AL 36523-3050. It is one of 12 churches in Coden.
8555 Sweet Bethel Dr E, Coden, AL, 36523-3050Phone: +12518244132 · Website: http://www.welshbethelbaptistchurch.com
Sweet Bethel Missionary 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 Sweet Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (14.6–26.1%)
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (18.0–37.9%)
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (11.3–46.6%)
- Depression: 25.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
- Coden Assembly Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Coden United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Bayou La Batre, AL
- Beit Israel Messianic Synagogue — 1.1 mi away in Bayou la Batre, AL
- Hemley Road Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away in Bayou la Batre, AL
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Bayou la Batre, AL
- Saint Margaret Catholic Church and School — 1.4 mi away in Bayou La Batre, AL
- First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Bayou La Batre, AL
- Independent Church of God — 2.8 mi away in Irvington, AL
- First United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Irvington, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Bayou La Batre, AL
- First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Bayou La Batre, AL
- The Cowboy Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Irvington, AL
- Pine Air Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Grand Bay, AL
- Victory Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away