First Calvary Baptist Church
First Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbia, SC 29204. It is one of 423 churches in Columbia, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbia, SC, 29204Website: http://firstcalvary.org/
First Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Calvary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 45.4% (30.9–60.2%)
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (26.1–50.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (5.4–26.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0% (10.4–19.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near First Calvary Baptist Church
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Antisdel Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Biblica Latinoamericana — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chappelle Memorial AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away