Where is First African Baptist Church located?

First African Baptist Church is at 601 New Street, Beaufort, SC, 29902.

What time are services at First African Baptist Church?

First African Baptist Church meets Thursday at 6:30pm. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First African Baptist Church?

First African Baptist Church in Beaufort, SC is a Baptist church. It is one of 6 Baptist congregations in Beaufort.

First African Baptist Church

First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 601 New Street in Beaufort, SC 29902. It is one of 97 churches in Beaufort, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.

First African Baptist Church is a family of regular people who want to honor our Lord Jesus Christ and encourage each other to grow in our walk with Him.

601 New Street, Beaufort, SC, 29902

Service times

Thursday 6:30pm

Phone: (843) 812-7876

First African 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 First African Baptist Church

Men's Ministry
Women's Ministry
Trustee Board
Missionary Society
Audio and Visual Ministry
Music Ministry
Pastoral Ministry
Usher Board

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The community around First African Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 27.0%
Diabetes: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Beaufort city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 1,114 residents.

Churches near First African Baptist Church

East Point Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
Carteret Street United Methodist — 0.1 mi away
Christian Science Society, Beaufort — 0.2 mi away
Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Beaufort Bible Chapel — 0.3 mi away
Grace Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
Baptist Church of Beaufort and Historical Markers — 0.3 mi away
The Parish Church of St. Helena;Saint Helenas Church — 0.4 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Baptist Church of Beaufort and Historical Markers — 0.3 mi away
Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Riverview Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
Beaufort Hilton Head Korean Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away

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