Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 41.3%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (9.5–32.2%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (6.5–21.8%)

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Mount Glory Church — 1.4 mi away in Iuka, MS
• Way of Life Worship Center — 1.7 mi away
• Paradise Church — 1.8 mi away
• Carter's Branch Church of Christ — 2.1 mi away
• Boggs Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Iuka, MS
• Tishomingo Pentecostal Church — 2.4 mi away
• Tishomingo Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
• Tishomingo United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Tishomingo Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 2.7 mi away in Iuka, MS