Jehovah Baptist Church
Jehovah Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 803 South Harvin Street in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
to EXALT THE SAVIOR; EVANGELIZE THE LOST; EXECUTE MISSION; EDIFY THE SAINTS.
In the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Eleven, the first congregation of Jehovah Baptist Church met in a house on Manning Avenue in the southern part of the City of Sumter, South Carolina on the corner of South Harvin Street and Royal Avenue.
803 South Harvin Street, Sumter, SC, 29150Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Phone: (803) 775-4032 · Website: https://www.jehovahbaptist.org/
Jehovah Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,022 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 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.
Ministries at Jehovah Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Child Development Center
- Family Life Education Center
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The community around Jehovah Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 43.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (20.7–44.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (5.7–22.0%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.5–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Jehovah Baptist Church
- Clinton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Berea Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Station African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Apostolic Church - Sumter — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Real Life Worship Center, Inc. — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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