Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 7.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 50.7%
• Child Poverty: 49.4% (34.0–64.8%)
• Social Isolation: 40.3%
• Food Insecurity: 36.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
• Diabetes: 22.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
• Poverty Rate: 29.3% (17.5–41.2%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (2.4–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Mount Zion Church — 1.9 mi away
• Jones Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Belzoni, MS
• Refuge Chapel — 2.8 mi away in Belzoni, MS
• Quofaloma Church — 2.9 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Evening Star Church — 3.3 mi away
• Thornton Church — 3.5 mi away
• Sweet Kingdom Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Heaver II Church — 4.3 mi away in Belzoni, MS
• Locust Grove Church — 4.4 mi away