Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.0%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Poverty Rate: 20.9% (12.6–29.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.9–17.0%)
• Unemployment: 7.9% (0.4–15.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Mount Gilead Church — 0.5 mi away
• Rocky Mount Church — 2.3 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 2.7 mi away
• Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 3.6 mi away
• Gray Rock Church — 4.1 mi away in Coffeeville, MS
• Green Goshen Church — 4.2 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4.6 mi away
• Sanders Chapel — 4.7 mi away