Ghents Branch Baptist Church

Ghents Branch Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Blackville, SC 29817. It is one of 28 churches in Blackville, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.

Blackville, SC, 29817

Phone: (803) 765-0030

Ghents Branch 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 Ghents Branch Baptist Church

It takes 3.3 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 30.9%
  • Diabetes: 19.2%
  • Obesity: 43.3%
  • Social Isolation: 37.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (10.7–21.8%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
  • Unemployment: 11.6% (4.2–19.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 20.4% (10.4–30.5%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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