Bethlehem Church

The community around Bethlehem Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 40.5%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Social Isolation: 30.8%
• Child Poverty: 27.1% (11.8–42.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
• Food Insecurity: 19.0%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (2.1–11.7%)

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

Churches near Bethlehem Church

• Wesley Chapel — 1.1 mi away in Saint Matthews, SC
• Providence Church — 2.4 mi away in Orangeburg, SC
• Beulah Church — 2.4 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 2.4 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in St. Matthews, SC
• Mount Nebo Church — 3.3 mi away in Orangeburg, SC
• Gethsemane Church — 3.5 mi away
• St. Peter AME Church — 3.8 mi away in North, SC
• Saint Peters Church — 3.8 mi away in North, SC
• Mount Pisgah Church — 3.9 mi away