New Bethel Baptist Church
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 174 Branch Street in Pontiac, MI 48341. It is one of 154 churches in Pontiac, and one of 27 Baptist congregations in the city.
174 Branch Street, Pontiac, MI, 48341Website: http://newbethel-pontiac.org
New Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.7% (25.1–64.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (13.9–34.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (3.0–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Pontiac city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 462 residents.
Churches near New Bethel Baptist Church
- Lake Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Rutley Rosezell — 0.3 mi away
- Johnson Memorial Cogic — 0.3 mi away
- Newman African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newman Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Hispana Adventista Del Séptimo Día — 0.5 mi away