Bethel Community Baptist Church

Bethel Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4114 Old Gentilly Rd in New Orleans, LA 70126-4931. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.

4114 Old Gentilly Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70126-4931

Phone: +15049430456 · Website: https://bethelcommunitybaptistchurch.com/

Bethel Community 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.

Ministries at Bethel Community Baptist Church

  • Residential Program
  • Men's Ministry
  • Women at the Well
  • Family House

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The community around Bethel Community Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.

  • Social Isolation: 40.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 26.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.0% (9.1–37.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
  • Diabetes: 17.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
  • Obesity: 36.8%
  • Depression: 26.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (2.1–11.6%)

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

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