Elim Baptist Church
Elim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1303 Olanta Hwy. in Effingham, SC 29541. It is one of 25 churches in Effingham, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1786 · Part of Florence Baptist Association
1303 Olanta Hwy., Effingham, SC, 29541Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (843) 662-5860 · Website: http://www.elimbc.org/
Elim 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 Elim Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Food Insecurity: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elim Baptist Church
- Meadow Prong Church — 1.8 mi away
- Sand Hill Good Will Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Coward, SC
- Effingham Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Mossy Grove Church — 2.5 mi away in Coward, SC
- Effingham Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 2.9 mi away
- Zion Chapel — 3.1 mi away
- Alive In Christ Kingdom Ministries — 3.3 mi away
- Bethsadia Church — 3.5 mi away
- New Covenant Church — 3.6 mi away
- Calvary Pentecostal Holiness Church — 3.6 mi away in Timmonsville, SC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sand Hill Good Will Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Coward, SC
- Effingham Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Olive Grove Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Coward, SC
- First Pentecostal Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Southoak Free Will Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Florence, SC
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