El Bethel Church

The community around El Bethel Church

It takes 6.3 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 41.1%
• Child Poverty: 39.1% (20.4–57.7%)
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.6–31.2%)
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Food Insecurity: 19.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (2.0–13.6%)

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

Churches near El Bethel Church

• Barks Church — 2.1 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.7 mi away
• Coon Island Pentecostal Church — 2.9 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.7 mi away
• New Morning Star Church — 4 mi away
• Independence Church — 4.7 mi away
• Shepherd's Fold Church — 4.8 mi away
• Saint Margarite Mary Church — 5 mi away
• State Line Church — 5.2 mi away
• Stillcamp Church — 5.8 mi away