First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bamberg, SC 29003. It is one of 32 churches in Bamberg, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bamberg, SC, 29003Website: http://www.firstpeterbaptistchurch.org
First 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (4.5–26.8%)
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (11.5–34.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.5–21.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Future Church of God and Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of The Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Bamberg Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bamburg Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- True Bibleway Church of God of the Apostolic Faith — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Carmel United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calhoun Street Church of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lemon Swamp Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Spring Branch Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Springtown Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Denmark, SC
- Eden Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
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