Greater Carolina Baptist Church
Greater Carolina Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1634 Van Heise St in Columbia, SC 29204-1477. It is one of 422 churches in Columbia, and one of 74 Baptist congregations in the city.
1634 Van Heise St, Columbia, SC, 29204-1477Phone: (803) 722-4220 · Website: http://www.gcbcsc.info/
Greater Carolina 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 — 71,352 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 Greater Carolina Baptist 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (24.2–43.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Child Poverty: 33.7% (17.9–50.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (2.8–19.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Carolina Baptist Church
- Crescent Hill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- True Word Church of ECCM — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingston Road Church — 0.4 mi away
- Royal Generation International Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Rehoboth United Church — 0.5 mi away
- Edgewood Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kadesha Jenkins Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Church of Columbia — 0.6 mi away
- Jones Memorial AME Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Crescent Hill Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Mark Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater St Luke Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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