Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 76.8%
• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.3% (12.0–38.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.3%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Unemployment: 8.5% (1.0–16.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethel Church

• First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Bethel Church — 0.3 mi away
• Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Memorial Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• St. Phillips Church of God in Christ — 2.5 mi away in Govan, SC
• Georges Creek Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Greater Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Govan, SC
• Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Govan First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Govan, SC