Union Baptist Church
Union 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, 29003Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 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 10 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: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 12.8% (4.7–20.9%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (13.6–34.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (9.7–22.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Springtown Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Eden Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Orange Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
- Hampton Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Olar, SC
- Colston Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- St. Phillips Church of God in Christ — 4.1 mi away in Govan, SC
- Greater Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Govan, SC
- Govan First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Govan, SC
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Ehrhardt, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Springtown Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Eden Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Olar, SC
- Colston Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Greater Sweet Branch Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Govan, SC
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