Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 201 McKinley Avenue in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
201 McKinley Avenue, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Bethany Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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.
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The community around Bethany Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Food Insecurity: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Ottumwa Church of the Brethren — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Belen Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
- Albia Road Southern Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Hispana De Ottumwa — 0.5 mi away
- Ottumwa Bible Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Open Bible — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lake Road Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Albia Road Southern Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ottumwa Bible Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ottumwa Baptist Temple — 1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away