Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 6.9 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Poverty Rate: 24.3% (13.4–35.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.9%
• Unemployment: 10.6% (3.3–19.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
• Diabetes: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (4.5–17.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

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

Churches near Bethel Church

• West Salem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Piave Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Union Grove Church — 5.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 5.8 mi away
• New Lovewell Church — 6 mi away
• Lovewell Church — 6.1 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 6.5 mi away
• Church of God — 6.8 mi away in State Line, MS
• Fellowship Free Will Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away
• County Line Church — 6.8 mi away in State Line, MS