Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1121 Tilghman Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
1121 Tilghman Street, Chester, PA, 19013Website: https://www.thebethanybaptistchurch.com/
Bethany Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,419 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 Bethany Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 64.1% (45.1–83.1%)
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (24.4–54.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (4.7–25.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Grace Community United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion United Holy Disciple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anointed Full Gospel Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Covenant Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Eternal Hope of Glory — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Mary's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Murphy AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Holy Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Upland Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Upland, PA
- St. Paul Original Primitive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Faithful Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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