Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Child Poverty: 62.4% (44.2–80.8%)
• Obesity: 47.8%
• Poverty Rate: 35.2% (22.5–47.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 21.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (6.1–17.9%)
• Unemployment: 7.6% (3.8–12.3%)

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

Churches near Bethel Church

• Cash Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Jim Rights Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Zion Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Robinson AME Zion Church — 3 mi away
• Harris Creek Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Society Hill, SC
• Society Hill Church Of God — 4.8 mi away in Society Hill, SC
• Trinity Episcopal Church — 5 mi away in Society Hill, SC
• Welsh Neck Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Society Hill, SC
• Society Hill Church — 5.2 mi away in Society Hill, SC