Black Rock Baptist Church
Black Rock Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chester, SC, 29706Black Rock 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 Black Rock Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (13.4–48.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (11.1–29.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (7.1–22.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Black Rock Baptist Church
- Orrs Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Williamsville Church — 2.9 mi away
- Hopewell Church — 2.9 mi away
- Saint Philips Church — 3.2 mi away
- Uriel Church — 3.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Chestnut Grove Church — 3.9 mi away
- ember church — 4 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 4 mi away
- Rehoboth Church — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Orrs Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Eureka Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
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