Bethlehem Baptist Church

Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.

Chester, SC, 29706

Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,022 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Bethlehem Baptist Church

It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 33.9%
  • Diabetes: 16.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
  • Child Poverty: 22.4% (5.3–41.1%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.3–26.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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