Faith Baptist Church
Faith Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 801 South Maple Street in Columbia, SC 29205. It is one of 535 churches in Columbia, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
To teach and obey the Word of the Lord as our only basis for our faith and practice.
The Greater Faith Baptist Church (GFBC) was organized and founded on September 8, 1975 at the home of Deacon and Mrs. Jerry Johnson.
Serving since 1975
801 South Maple Street, Columbia, SC, 29205Service times
Sun. 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. (as listed)
Faith 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 — 71,419 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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Latest from Greater Faith Baptist Church's YouTube channel: 1st Pastoral Anniversary Service (all videos).
The community around Faith Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.1% (10.1–24.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near Faith Baptist Church
- Believers Faith Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Church In The Lord — 0.4 mi away
- Columbia Family Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Nation Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church Of Truth — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- FIFMI South Carolina — 0.6 mi away in Lexington, SC
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Holy Nation Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- South Beltline Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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