Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6901 Herbert Guice Way in Oakland, CA 94621. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 80 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to lead the unsaved person into an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ through evangelism; and disciple them to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ to serve as His Ambassadors.
6901 Herbert Guice Way, Oakland, CA, 94621Service times
Sunday School: 9:10 AM (as listed)
Phone: (510) 569-4044 · Website: https://www.betheloakland.org/
Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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 Bethel Baptist Church
- General Mission
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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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than 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.
- Social Isolation: 44.8%
- Food Insecurity: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (11.9–32.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (3.0–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostes — 0.1 mi away
- Starlight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Havenscourt Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Oakland Faith Deliverance Center — 0.3 mi away
- Acts Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Nueva Jerusalen — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Bernards Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Oakland Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Starlight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Oakland Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church of Oakland CA — 0.6 mi away
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