Gethsemane Baptist Church
Gethsemane 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, 29003Gethsemane 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 Gethsemane Baptist Church
It takes 5.2 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 nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (14.3–34.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (8.4–25.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (1.8–14.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gethsemane Baptist Church
- Truevine Church — 2.2 mi away
- Hunters Chapel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Zion Church — 2.5 mi away in Branchville, SC
- Mount Pleasant Church — 2.8 mi away in Ehrhardt, SC
- Goodland Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Prospect Church — 3.3 mi away in Branchville, SC
- Bethel Church — 3.3 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Fish Pond Church — 3.4 mi away
- Piney Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hunters Chapel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Goodland Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Savannah Creek Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Ehrhardt, SC
- Williams Chapel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Ehrhardt, SC
- Spring Branch Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away
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