Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (12.0–26.6%)
• Obesity: 37.4%
• Child Poverty: 22.9% (12.1–37.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
• Food Insecurity: 17.5%
• Poverty Rate: 16.0% (9.1–23.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
• Diabetes: 13.4%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.1–11.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Echols County consolidated government is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 370 residents.

Churches near Bethel Church

• Wright’s Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Antioch Church — 2.7 mi away
• Enoch Creek Church — 2.8 mi away in Lake Park, GA
• Sardis Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Antioch Christian Church — 3.5 mi away in Lake Park, GA
• Lake Park Christian Church — 4.5 mi away in Lake Park, GA
• Lake Park United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Lake Park, GA
• Jennings United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Jennings, FL
• Saint Marys Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Jennings, FL
• Jennings Community Churchfl — 4.6 mi away in Jennings, FL