Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Child Poverty: 36.4% (16.7–56.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Obesity: 39.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.4–27.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Mount Elam Church — 0.3 mi away
• Browns Church — 1.3 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Morehead Church — 1.9 mi away
• Hickory Grove Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Liberty Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Bunion Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Bethel Church — 3.7 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4 mi away in Grenada, MS
• Ambrose Church — 4.3 mi away