Old Bethel Baptist Church
Old Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 180 County Highway 449 in Sikeston, MO 63801-8235. It is one of 48 churches in Sikeston, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Old Bethel Baptist Church ( Silent Hill) was organized sometime in the late 1800's. After an eight year period of inactivity, the church was reorganized in 1921. In 1960, a new building was constructed and in the mid- 1970's, a new auditorium and fellowship hall were added. In the early -1990's the people of the church built a parsonage. The church launched out in faith in 1999 and purchased a 6 acre tract of land where new facilities would be built to accommodate the fast growing congregation. The congregation labored sacrificially in giving and in building, to bring this vision to past. Our
Serving since 1800
180 County Highway 449, Sikeston, MO, 63801-8235Phone: +15734819700 · Website: https://oldbethelbaptist.com/
Old Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,662 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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 Old Bethel Baptist Church
- Bus Ministry
- VBS
- Homeless Shelters
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The community around Old Bethel Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Food Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (8.3–17.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Old Bethel Baptist Church
- Silent Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blodgett Community Church — 3.7 mi away in Blodgett, MO
- Sikeston First Assembly of God — 3.9 mi away
- Miner Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Miner, MO
- Trinity Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- The Sanctuary of SEMO Church — 4.6 mi away
- Compassion Church — 4.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 4.7 mi away
- Northside Church — 4.7 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Miner, MO
More Baptist churches nearby
- Blodgett Community Church — 3.7 mi away in Blodgett, MO
- Miner Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Miner, MO
- Trinity Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away