New Bethel Church

The community around New Bethel Church

It takes 5.1 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: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Child Poverty: 31.4% (18.6–44.1%)
• Depression: 28.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Unemployment: 9.3% (3.4–15.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
• Poverty Rate: 20.6% (12.6–28.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

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

Churches near New Bethel Church

• Saint Mary Church — 1.5 mi away
• Holly Ridge Church — 2 mi away
• Holly Grove Church — 2 mi away
• Cedar Church — 2.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church Archibald — 2.5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 3 mi away
• Little Creek Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4.2 mi away
• Church of God — 4.3 mi away
• Poplar Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.3 mi away