New Bethel Church

The community around New Bethel Church

It takes 3.2 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: 43.1%
• Child Poverty: 38.8% (22.3–55.3%)
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Poverty Rate: 25.8% (16.0–35.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.5%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Depression: 24.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.0–18.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

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

Churches near New Bethel Church

• Owen Grove Church — 1.2 mi away
• Running Branch Church — 1.4 mi away
• Beaverdam Church — 1.7 mi away
• New Coharie Church — 1.8 mi away
• Beaver Dam Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Sharon Church — 2 mi away
• McGee Church — 2.3 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church — 2.4 mi away
• Bearskin Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Sampson Chapel — 2.9 mi away