Bethlehem Baptist Church
Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sumter, SC, 29150Website: http://bethlehemofbonham.net/
Bethlehem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Bethlehem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 53.6%
- Food Insecurity: 44.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (24.8–49.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (7.1–24.5%)
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (5.8–19.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Clinton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Real Life Worship Center, Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Jehovah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God By Faith — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jehovah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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