Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ocala, FL 34471. It is one of 378 churches in Ocala, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ocala, FL, 34471Bethel 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 Bethel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 57.9% (41.5–74.3%)
- Obesity: 49.0%
- Poverty Rate: 44.7% (33.2–56.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.8% (12.7–26.8%)
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.4–16.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ocala city is served by 118 churches — about one congregation for every 538 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Covenant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deliverance Church Of The Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Santa Theresas Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Rightway Christian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Isom Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highway Christian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Church in Florida-Disciples of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Covenant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Bethlehem Baptist Association — 0.6 mi away
- Downtown Baptist Temple — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away