Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 18 Saint James Street in Boston, MA 02119. It is one of 363 churches in Boston, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1912
18 Saint James Street, Boston, MA, 02119Website: http://www.bethelbaptistchurchroxbury.com/
Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,417 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,600 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.1% (34.4–63.1%)
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (19.8–40.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (7.7–18.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Boston city is served by 162 churches — about one congregation for every 4,110 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Twelfth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ethiopian Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mekane Hiwot St. Michael Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 0.2 mi away in Roxbury, MA
- Refuge Temple Church Apost — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.2 mi away in Roxbury, MA
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away in Roxbury, MA
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ in Roxbury — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Twelfth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holistic Life Baptist Church Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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