New Bethlehem Baptist Church
New Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Highway 71 in Shelby, AL 35143. It is one of 9 churches in Shelby, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
In March 1901, the New Bethlehem Baptist Church was organized by a small group of devout, dedicated Christians who had a desire to fellowship and worship God.
Highway 71, Shelby, AL, 35143Service times
- Tuesday 5:30pm
Phone: (205) 669-3401 · Website: https://www.nbbc.info/
New Bethlehem 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.
Ministries at New Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Men’s Youth Outreach Ministry
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The community around New Bethlehem Baptist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Social Isolation: 31.3%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (6.8–25.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (0.5–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Shelby Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Focus Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Providence Church — 1.7 mi away
- Cole Temple Church — 1.8 mi away
- South Shelby Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Good Hope Church — 3.1 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Antioch Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Bethlehem Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- South Shelby Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Antioch Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Bay Spring Church — 4 mi away