Bethany Church

The community around Bethany Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 34.2% (18.6–49.9%)
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Obesity: 38.1%
• Depression: 25.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
• Poverty Rate: 17.6% (10.7–24.5%)
• Diabetes: 14.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethany Church

• Sharon Church — 1.4 mi away
• North Holston Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Victory Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.8 mi away in Wytheville, VA
• Fairview Church — 4.3 mi away
• Red Oak Church — 4.5 mi away
• Zion Church — 5.6 mi away
• Green Mountain Church — 5.7 mi away in Rural Retreat, VA
• Kimberlin Church — 6.1 mi away in Rural Retreat, VA
• Corinth Church — 6.6 mi away in Rural Retreat, VA