First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1201 Broad Street in Camden, SC 29020. It is one of 77 churches in Camden, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
1201 Broad Street, Camden, SC, 29020Service times
Sunday 9:15am; Wednesday 10am; Thursday 6:30pm (of that) (as listed)
Phone: (803) 432-7635 · Website: https://firstbaptistcamden.org/whats-new
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,352 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 Baptist Church
- Children's Ministries
- Senior Adult Ministries
- Royal Ambassadors
- Women on Mission
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 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: 32.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (15.5–41.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (13.1–26.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (8.1–16.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.5–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 658 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Bethseda Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Camden First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sardis Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Edwards Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Mary Magdalene Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Timothys Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sardis Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wateree Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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