Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 3.4 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Poverty Rate: 24.2% (16.3–32.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (9.8–20.3%)
• Child Poverty: 28.2% (14.0–42.7%)
• Depression: 24.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.8–11.6%)

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Friendfield Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
• Hebron Church — 2.3 mi away
• Lynches River Free Will Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Coward, SC
• High Hill Church — 2.9 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 3.4 mi away
• Shiloh Church of Prophecy — 3.5 mi away in Coward, SC
• Mount Rona Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Effingham, SC
• Saint John Church — 3.8 mi away in Pamplico, SC
• Stone Chapel — 4.2 mi away in Pamplico, SC
• Prospect United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Pamplico, SC