Bethesda Baptist Church
Bethesda Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Americus, GA 31709. It is one of 86 churches in Americus, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Americus, GA, 31709Website: http://bethesdamissionarybaptistchurch.weebly.com/
Bethesda Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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 Bethesda Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethesda Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (17.7–39.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (12.8–26.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.4–15.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Americus city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 106 residents.
Churches near Bethesda Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Reach Out and Touch Ministries Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Americus — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Mary's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.3 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Triedstone Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away