First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1306 Hampton Street in Columbia, SC 29201. It is one of 535 churches in Columbia, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
1306 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC, 29201Website: http://www.firstbaptistcolumbia.com
Shares a ministry location with First Young Professionals.
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 — 71,419 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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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 80.2%
- Poverty Rate: 54.1%
- Food Insecurity: 26.0% (19.9–33.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9% (10.5–19.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Young Professionals — 0 mi away
- Washington Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- truthXchange — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Apostles — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina — 0.2 mi away
- Dream Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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