Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church
Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in DeLand, FL 32720. It is one of 100 churches in DeLand, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist church, an offspring of Greater Union Baptist Church of Deland, was organized in March of 1908 by Rev. Young.
Serving since 1908
DeLand, FL, 32720Website: https://www.gbbcdeland.org/
Shares a ministry location with Hope Transformation.
Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,872 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.
Find Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Bethlehem 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 a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (13.7–39.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (4.6–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
DeLand city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 768 residents.
Churches near Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Hope Transformation — 0 mi away
- Christian Science Reading Room — 0.2 mi away in Deland, FL
- First United Methodist Church of Deland — 0.2 mi away
- Gods Covenant Mission Center — 0.2 mi away
- Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pillar Ground Outreach Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist — 0.3 mi away
- Wellspring Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Union First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peters Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Union First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul Community Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away