Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Texarkana, AR 71854. It is one of 99 churches in Texarkana, and one of 27 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1946
Texarkana, AR, 71854Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (17.1–40.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.1–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Texarkana city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 717 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lewis Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Eleventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.6 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wards Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Beech Street First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Highland Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Transformation Center International — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Eleventh Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Beech Street First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Highland Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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