Forest Lake Bible Church
Forest Lake Bible Church is a Southern Baptist church at 2401 Decker Blvd in Columbia, SC 29206-2312. It is one of 535 churches in Columbia, and one of 3 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
Our core purpose at FLBC is to exalt God, edify one another, and evangelize the world.
2401 Decker Blvd, Columbia, SC, 29206-2312Phone: (803) 788-8416 · Website: https://www.forestlakebible.com/
Forest Lake Bible 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.
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The community around Forest Lake Bible Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 38.7% (21.1–57.4%)
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (9.5–30.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forest Lake Bible Church
- Living Water Christian Outreach Center — 0.3 mi away
- La Puerta Iglesia de Compañerismo Cristiano — 0.3 mi away
- Eglise Evangelique La Bergerie De Christ — 0.4 mi away
- City of Hope — 0.5 mi away
- Aphesis Church — 0.6 mi away
- Foundation Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Forward City Church — 0.8 mi away
- Rehoboth United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Rehobeth Church — 0.8 mi away
- Life Living Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Foundation Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Dentsville Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- North Trenholm Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Woodfield Park Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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