Whitmire First Baptist Church
Whitmire First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Whitmire, SC 29178. It is one of 16 churches in Whitmire, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Whitmire, SC, 29178Website: http://www.fbccola.com
Whitmire First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Whitmire First Baptist Church
It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (14.9–31.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.3–16.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Whitmire First Baptist Church
- Whitmire United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Heritage Wesleyan Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Whitmire Pentecostal — 0.4 mi away
- Central Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sims Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pine Ridge Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Cedar Grove AME Zion Church — 2.4 mi away