First Bethlehem Baptist
First Bethlehem Baptist is a Baptist church at 368 Rochester Ave in New York, NY 11213-5546. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 284 Baptist congregations in the city.
368 Rochester Ave, New York, NY, 11213-5546Phone: (718) 467-0518 · Website: https://baptist-first-bethlehem-ny.hub.biz/
First Bethlehem Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,466 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,420 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Bethlehem Baptist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 5,600 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (10.9–33.8%)
- Unemployment: 10.4% (3.2–17.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
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- Pentecostal Circle Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Upper Room Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Holy Love Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Deliverance and Restoration Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Center — 0.3 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Victory Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
More Baptist churches nearby
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