First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Darlington, SC 29532. It is one of 77 churches in Darlington, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Darlington, SC, 29532First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (13.2–35.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Darlington city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 122 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Matthews Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Matthew's Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Darlington — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lee Street First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Free Will Baptist Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Free Will Baptist Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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