New Bethel Church

The community around New Bethel Church

It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about 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: 47.5% (29.9–65.1%)
• Obesity: 45.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
• Food Insecurity: 26.4%
• Diabetes: 18.6%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Poverty Rate: 26.7% (15.1–38.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Depression: 24.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.0%

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

Churches near New Bethel Church

• Ephesus Church — 1.3 mi away
• United Christian Church of Emmet — 2.4 mi away in Emmet, AR
• Hickory Grove Church — 3.5 mi away
• Midway United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Salem Church — 4.2 mi away
• Pleasant Ridge Church — 4.7 mi away
• New Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Mount Everest Church — 5.1 mi away
• A Place of Meeting — 5.1 mi away in Perrytown, AR
• Central Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away