Bethlehem Baptist Church
Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1680 18th Street in Sarasota, FL 34234. It is one of 219 churches in Sarasota, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
1680 18th Street, Sarasota, FL, 34234Phone: (941) 955-8834 · Website: https://www.bethlehembiblechurch.org/
Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,714 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,874 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.
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The community around Bethlehem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.4% (15.7–31.1%)
- Child Poverty: 35.8% (22.1–49.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (18.9–38.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Obesity: 40.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Sarasota city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,635 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Saint Marthas Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sarasota House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Palabra de Fe — 0.3 mi away
- Newtown Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ekballo Sarasota — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Camino de Fe Sarasota — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Payne Chapel AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ecclessia Family Worship Center International — 0.4 mi away
- The House Chapel — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Truevine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away