First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 397 College Avenue in Clemson, SC 29631. It is one of 34 churches in Clemson, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.

First Baptist Church of Clemson, an inclusive community of faith, seeks to worship, glorify, and serve God, as revealed in Jesus Christ, both locally and globally.

Part of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

397 College Avenue, Clemson, SC, 29631

Phone: (864) 654-2347 · Website: https://firstbaptistclemson.com/

Shares a ministry location with CCCC (Chinese Christian Church At Clemson).

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 — 71,417 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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Upcoming events at First Baptist Church

  • Sun, Sep 20 · 6 PM: Jr./Sr. Bible Study — (Youth Area)
  • Mon, Sep 21 · 10:30 AM: Men's Morning Prayer Group — (@ the home of John & Sylvia Peters)
  • Mon, Sep 21 · 8:30 PM: Beta Theta Pi - Monday Night Basketball — (Family Life Center)
  • Tue, Sep 22 · 3 PM: Yarn for Yahweh — (Central-Clemson Library)
  • Tue, Sep 22 · 5:30 PM: BSF Men's Group — (#217)

From First Baptist Church's public calendar (https://firstbaptistclemson.com/). Times are the church's local time.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 67.6%
  • Social Isolation: 41.8%
  • Depression: 33.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 31.6% (23.1–40.3%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.3% (12.8–21.9%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9% (10.2–19.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (2.0–12.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Clemson city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 582 residents.

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