Bethlehem Baptist Church
Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawton, OK 73507. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73507Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,607 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 71,872 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.
Find Bethlehem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethlehem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Poverty Rate: 31.0% (20.7–41.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (12.5–27.7%)
- Unemployment: 14.7% (4.8–24.5%)
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrew Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Lawton — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel Lawton Korean Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church — 0.4 mi away
- Petarsy Indian Mission — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church — 0.4 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away