St Mark Baptist Church
St Mark Baptist Church is a church at 2700 Chestnut St in Columbia, SC 29204-2100. It is one of 422 churches in Columbia.
2700 Chestnut St, Columbia, SC, 29204-2100Phone: (803) 256-7133 · Website: https://saintmarkbaptist.org/
St Mark 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 St Mark Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.1%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (6.1–22.2%)
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (15.7–50.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (17.7–36.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Mark Baptist Church
- Kadesha Jenkins Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Royal Generation International Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jones Memorial AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Church of Columbia — 0.5 mi away
- Second Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- True Word Church of ECCM — 0.7 mi away
- Crescent Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Antisdel Chapel — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Nazareth Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Crescent Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Carolina Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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