Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 6.2 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Child Poverty: 30.8% (15.2–46.3%)
• Depression: 29.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Poverty Rate: 19.0% (11.2–26.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.8%
• Diabetes: 14.9%
• Unemployment: 7.4% (1.7–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Calvary Church — 1.8 mi away
• Trout Creek Church — 2 mi away
• Bethel Grove United Pentecostal Church — 2.8 mi away in Deridder, LA
• The River Church — 3.6 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Cooper Church — 4.1 mi away
• True Light Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Leesville, LA
• Church Of Christ — 5 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away