New Bethel Church

The community around New Bethel Church

It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.0%
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.3% (10.7–24.0%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.6–16.3%)
• Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.3%)

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

Churches near New Bethel Church

• Crooked Bayou Church — 1.4 mi away
• Central Church — 2.1 mi away
• Forrest Aid Church — 3.8 mi away
• Smith Chapel — 4.3 mi away
• New Liberty Church — 4.5 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 5.1 mi away
• Bayou Macon Church — 5.2 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 5.6 mi away
• LVA Church — 5.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 5.9 mi away