Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35904Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,418 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.2%
- Food Insecurity: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.2% (19.7–42.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (9.2–30.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (1.5–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Revival Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triune Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Highlands — 0.5 mi away
- South Eleventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Gadsden Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Well Gadsden — 0.7 mi away
- Number One Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Triune Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Eleventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Gadsden Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away