Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Unemployment: 9.5% (3.7–15.3%)
• Social Isolation: 31.2%
• Depression: 25.9%
• Child Poverty: 22.2% (6.7–37.7%)

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Salem Church — 0.9 mi away
• Lackey Town Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Living Waters Tabernacle — 2.4 mi away
• Old Fort Church of God — 3.1 mi away
• Old Fort Wesleyan Church — 3.2 mi away
• Old Fort United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Pharr Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church — 3.2 mi away
• Old Fort Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Ebenezer Church — 3.4 mi away