Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Unemployment: 14.3% (6.2–22.7%)
• Obesity: 42.6%
• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
• Food Insecurity: 24.3%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Child Poverty: 25.2% (11.0–39.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.9% (12.2–27.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Mount Airy Church — 0.9 mi away in Sturgis, MS
• Mount Salem Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Church of God — 2 mi away
• Enon Presbyterian Church — 2.6 mi away
• Ackerman Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Ackerman United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Ackerman Church of Christ — 3 mi away
• Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ — 3.4 mi away
• Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away