Bethlehem Apostolic Church

The community around Bethlehem Apostolic Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, 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.

• Obesity: 45.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
• Poverty Rate: 31.0% (20.8–41.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 30.6%
• Diabetes: 22.6%
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Child Poverty: 34.1% (21.6–46.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.8–20.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.5%

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

Churches near Bethlehem Apostolic Church

• Lake View United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Miracle Temple Family Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
• Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Lake View — 0.5 mi away
• True Evidence Ministries of Lake View — 1.6 mi away
• New Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
• Bear Swamp Church — 1.7 mi away
• Kemper Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Poplar Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
• Turner Chapel — 3.3 mi away in Marietta, NC