Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Odessa, TX 79761. It is one of 210 churches in Odessa, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Odessa, TX, 79761Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,872 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.
Find Bethel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.4% (14.2–34.6%)
- Unemployment: 12.6% (1.9–23.4%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Child Poverty: 36.9% (17.0–56.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (12.8–32.9%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Odessa city is served by 84 churches — about one congregation for every 1,157 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Parks Memorial Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Texas and Clements Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church Mission Odessa — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Restaurant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church Mission Odessa — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Restaurant Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away