Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 4.0 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 33.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (14.4–31.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.7%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Child Poverty: 26.5% (12.2–42.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (7.1–17.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• New Light United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Self Creek Southern Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Maben, MS
• Self Creek Bible Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Maben, MS
• Big Creek Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Sturgis, MS
• Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Sturgis, MS
• Pleasant Hill Church — 4.2 mi away
• Faith Pentecostal Church of God — 4.5 mi away in Maben, MS
• Double Springs Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Maben, MS
• Center Grove Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Maben, MS
• Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away