Bethany Church

The community around Bethany Church

It takes 4.9 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: 43.5%
• Child Poverty: 36.9% (18.4–55.4%)
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (13.7–35.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (11.8–25.5%)
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Unemployment: 11.1% (2.6–19.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethany Church

• Topeka Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Calvary United Pentecostal — 1 mi away
• Ballards Chapel — 1 mi away
• Powells Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Divide Methodist Protestant — 2.9 mi away in Monticello, MS
• Oak Grove Church — 3.4 mi away
• Providence Church — 3.6 mi away
• Unity Church — 4 mi away
• Forest Grove Church — 4.1 mi away
• Jayess Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away