Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake Charles, LA 70615. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70615Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (2.8–31.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Messiah Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Freeman Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Riverside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Winners Chapel Int'l Louisiana — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Merrick Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Habibi Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Union Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Messiah Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Old Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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