Faith Baptist Church
Faith Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1903 J A Cochran (Bypass) in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are an independent, fundamental, Baptist Church located in Chester, South Carolina. If you are looking for a church where the KJV Bible is preached and taught, prayer is emphasized, hymns are still sung, an "amen" is not out of place, and the people are friendly, then Faith Baptist Church is the place for you. We are a small congregation with a big heart. We seek to serve the Lord in all things.
Serving since 1960
1903 J A Cochran (Bypass), Chester, SC, 29706Website: https://faithbaptistchester.com/
Faith 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 Faith Baptist Church
- Evangelistic outreach
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The community around Faith Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (19.0–39.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (7.5–23.0%)
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (10.0–47.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.2–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Faith Baptist Church
- ember church — 0.2 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eureka Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- The Holy Place Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eureka Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Carmel Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Eureka Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Temple of Praise — 1.2 mi away
- Second Wilson Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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