Old Bethel Baptist Church
Old Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jesup, GA 31545. It is one of 63 churches in Jesup, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Old Bethel Baptist Church ( Silent Hill) was organized sometime in the late 1800's. After an eight year period of inactivity, the church was reorganized in 1921. In 1960, a new building was constructed and in the mid- 1970's, a new auditorium and fellowship hall were added. In the early -1990's the people of the church built a parsonage. The church launched out in faith in 1999 and purchased a 6 acre tract of land where new facilities would be built to accommodate the fast growing congregation. The congregation labored sacrificially in giving and in building, to bring this vision to past. Our
Jesup, GA, 31545Old Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,848 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,352 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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Latest from Old Bethel Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Journey Through James (Lesson 5) (all videos).
The community around Old Bethel Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.2–18.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (3.4–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Old Bethel Baptist Church
- New Bethel Church — 1.8 mi away
- Church of God — 2.8 mi away in Odum, GA
- Satilla Church — 3.3 mi away
- Odum Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Odum, GA
- Liberty Lighthouse Church — 3.6 mi away
- Lake Grace Christian Mennonite Church — 3.8 mi away
- Flint Branch Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Fellowship Church — 4.4 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Westside Church of God — 4.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Odum Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Odum, GA
- Flint Branch Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Red Hill Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Red Hill Baptist Church — 5 mi away