First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 19449 Solomon Blatt Ave, SC, 29817 in Blackville, SC 29817. It is one of 28 churches in Blackville, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.

19449 Solomon Blatt Ave, SC, 29817, Blackville, SC, 29817

Phone: (803) 765-0030

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 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 46.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
  • Diabetes: 21.9%
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (12.1–24.7%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.5% (10.5–30.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Blackville town is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 262 residents.

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