Zion Bethel United Church of Christ
Zion Bethel United Church of Christ is a church at 1617 Des Moines Ave in Portsmouth, VA 23704-4303. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth.
1617 Des Moines Ave, Portsmouth, VA, 23704-4303Phone: +17573975418 · Website: https://www.ucc.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Freewill Baptist Church.
Zion Bethel United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Virginia — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Zion Bethel United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 nearly half 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: 50.4%
- Poverty Rate: 49.9% (31.9–67.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.4%
- Diabetes: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.3%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (6.9–21.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Bethel United Church of Christ
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Fresh Fire Redemption Center — 0 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- Portsmouth Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Light Church of Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Church of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Prentiss Park Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Antioch — 0.2 mi away
- Jackson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 1.2 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Mark United Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away in Norfolk, VA
- South Norfolk Congregational Christian Church — 2.5 mi away in Chesapeake, VA
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