First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1898 Pinckney Rd in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
1898 Pinckney Rd, Chester, SC, 29706Phone: (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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (13.5–32.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (10.1–24.2%)
- Unemployment: 8.5% (1.7–15.2%)
- Child Poverty: 22.1% (3.9–40.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 368 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Temple of Praise — 0.2 mi away
- Well Of Water Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Chester ARP Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chester Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Josephs Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Carmel Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Purity Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Temple of Praise — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Wilson Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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