First Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church is a church at 790 Hawthorne Rd in Chester, SC 29706-8266. It is one of 85 churches in Chester.
790 Hawthorne Rd, Chester, SC, 29706-8266Service times
Sunday Nights 7:00 PM (as listed)
Phone: (803) 377-8235 · Website: https://www.ffwbjc.com/
First Free Will 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 — 71,418 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 Free Will Baptist Church
- Children's Church & Nursery
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The community around First Free Will 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: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.6–31.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.3–23.6%)
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.2–16.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Free Will Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Moriah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Together As One Ministry - Chester SC — 0.6 mi away
- St Pauls Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lincolnville Church — 0.8 mi away
- Union Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fountain of Life Church of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Wilson Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Temple of Praise — 1.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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