Bethlehem Baptist Church
Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 158 churches in Sumter, and one of 14 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.
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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