Ariel Baptist Church
Ariel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at East Friendfield Road in Coward, SC 29530. It is one of 15 churches in Coward, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
East Friendfield Road, Coward, SC, 29530Ariel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,022 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,872 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 Ariel Baptist Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Child Poverty: 32.0% (15.3–48.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (16.0–32.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (11.6–23.8%)
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Coward town is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 459 residents.
Churches near Ariel Baptist Church
- Coward Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Free Will Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Savannah Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Coward Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Bible Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 0.9 mi away
- Coward Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Believers HC Center — 1.3 mi away
- Family Worship Assembly — 1.4 mi away
- Shiloh Church of Prophecy — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Free Will Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Savannah Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Coward Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Morian Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Scranton, SC
- Mt Moriah Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Scranton, SC
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