Bethel Baptist Church

Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3540 Garland Avenue in Louisville, KY 40211. It is one of 843 churches in Louisville, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.

God gave Rev. Bell the motto of our church; “Loving God, Loving People” for we can do nothing in the body of Christ without love.

Bethel first established as a mission in 1919 at Eleventh and Liberty Streets, Louisville, Kentucky.

Serving since 1919

3540 Garland Avenue, Louisville, KY, 40211

Website: http://www.bethellouisville.org/

Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

  • Obesity: 51.0%
  • Child Poverty: 42.4% (23.8–61.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 34.9% (20.0–49.9%)
  • Diabetes: 25.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.5% (2.7–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.

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