Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a church in Whigham, GA 39897. It is one of 26 churches in Whigham.
Whigham, GA, 39897Bethel 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 Bethel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 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 7 the people here live without health insurance, 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (9.5–24.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Pine Hill Church — 2.2 mi away
- Allen Chapel AME Church — 2.4 mi away
- Pine Level Church — 2.9 mi away in Cairo, GA
- Spring Hill United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Saint Peters Church — 3.3 mi away in Pelham, GA
- Mizpah Primitive Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Vernon Church — 3.8 mi away
- First Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- County Line Church — 4.7 mi away in Pelham, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Pine Level Church — 2.9 mi away in Cairo, GA
- Mizpah Primitive Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- First Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Pelham, GA