First Calvary Baptist Church
First Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Columbia, SC 29204. It is one of 535 churches in Columbia, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Columbia, SC, 29204Service times
- Sunday 8:30am · Morning Worship -
Phone: (919) 489-4184 · Website: http://firstcalvary.org/
First Calvary 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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The community around First Calvary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 45.4% (30.9–60.2%)
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (26.1–50.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (5.4–26.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0% (10.4–19.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near First Calvary Baptist Church
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Antisdel Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Biblica Latinoamericana — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chappelle Memorial AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Taylor Memorial Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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