New Bethel Church

The community around New Bethel Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 67.7%
• Obesity: 48.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
• Poverty Rate: 35.4% (26.2–44.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 35.2%
• Diabetes: 23.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
• Unemployment: 8.5% (0.1–17.1%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Depression: 23.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%

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

Churches near New Bethel Church

• Spring Hill Church — 2 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.2 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• New Beulah Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mount Union Church — 3.8 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 3.9 mi away
• Sepulga Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Sepulga Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• New Providence Church — 5 mi away
• Saint John Church — 5 mi away