West Bethel Baptist Church
West Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in McAlester, OK 74501. It is one of 83 churches in McAlester, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
McAlester, OK, 74501West Bethel 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.
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The community around West Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 45.3%
- Child Poverty: 41.7% (27.2–56.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (15.4–26.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (5.7–15.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
McAlester city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 247 residents.
Churches near West Bethel Baptist Church
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pittsburg Baptist Association — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Little Chapel on the Hill — 0.8 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Oasis McAlester — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pittsburg Baptist Association — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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