Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.6% (12.8–28.5%)
• Child Poverty: 35.8% (22.8–49.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Poverty Rate: 24.2% (15.6–32.8%)
• Obesity: 37.6%
• Social Isolation: 30.5%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Food Insecurity: 16.8%
• Diabetes: 13.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Liberty Church — 4.4 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 5.1 mi away
• Antioch Church — 5.1 mi away
• Cornerstone Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
• Seventh-day Adventist Church — 5.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
• Cornerstone Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
• First Christian Church of Centralia — 5.7 mi away
• Crossroads Cathedral Assembly of God — 5.8 mi away