Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 5.3 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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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%
• Depression: 28.7%
• Unemployment: 8.9% (2.4–15.5%)
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (7.3–26.0%)
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

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

Churches near Bethel Church

• Hope Well Church — 2.1 mi away in Pitkin, LA
• Humble Church — 2.5 mi away
• Oak Hill Church — 3.4 mi away in Oakdale, LA
• Bethany Church — 3.5 mi away in Oakdale, LA
• Gospel Lighthouse Church — 4.5 mi away in Oakdale, LA
• Pentecostal Church — 4.5 mi away in Oakdale, LA
• Calcasieu Church — 5.2 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 5.7 mi away
• Northside Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Oakdale, LA
• Shady Grove Church — 6 mi away in Pitkin, LA