Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.

• Poverty Rate: 31.0% (16.2–45.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Food Insecurity: 29.9%
• Diabetes: 19.5%
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Depression: 24.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Bethleham AME Church — 0.1 mi away
• Ebenezer Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• Mathews Hill Church — 2.5 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• New Hope Church — 2.8 mi away
• Johnsonville United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Old Johnsonville Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Nazareth African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.5 mi away
• Johnsonville First Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Johnsonville United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Johnsonville Church of God — 3.7 mi away